Technology will be more necessary than ever for every country, organization and person. The Metaverse is going to be that next technology and it is already in use. There are many real life use case of the metaverse you might or not be aware of.
Some of the real life use case of the metaverse are Fitness, Health, Social Media, Real Estate, Travel, Architecture and Engineering, etc. This blog post will highlight some of the real life use case of the metaverse that is being used by the user right now.
REAL LIFE USE CASE OF THE METAVERSE RIGHT NOW
Metaverse is the digital twin of our life. It aims to digitize every aspect of our way of life.In the real world we attend meetings in Zoom, WebX, Team, etc but in metavrse you can be in the meeting.
Today we play a game, in the metaverse we can be in the game. Learning by watching the computer screen, you can be in the classroom with your classmates collaborating.
You will be able to attend a concert that is only available in the metaverse. Instead of going to a stadium to watch a concert, you are going to be watching it in the metaverse by sitting in your room.
There are a whole lot of real life use cases of the metaverse right now. But in this section, I am going to stick to 11 real life use case of the metaverse right now.
HEALTH
What if in a part of the country someone was in need of surgery and there are no doctors that can perform that surgery. If the surgery is time sensitive it would be difficult for some doctor to fly in a short interval of time. But what if the doctor can be in the same operating room teaching the other doctor to perform that surgery.
This has happened. Dr. Michel Marin, a vascular surgeon in Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City used HoloLens along with Dynamic 365 Remote Assist and Teams coached a surgeon to perform surgery in Uganda.
So, you have seen health is the real life use case of the metaverse right now.
FACTORY
An incredible real life use case of the metaverse is in the factory. What if on our factory floor you are able to have additional capabilities and resources that teaches how to use the machinery more efficiently other than to read the manual.
At Kruger paper mill in Montreal, employees have used hololens 2 and dynamics 365 guides to learn on the job. The impact has been transformational. Donald Soucy who worked at the mill for 30 years has been able to capture all of the long-standing workplace wisdom and institutional knowledge and pass it on to new colleagues. This has accelerated the onboarding process and helped them take on complex tasks faster.
GAMES
The metaverse is bringing real gamification. What I mean by that you will come to know in this section.
You are buying games to play, earning points and assets in the game. But all these years, games have only provided entertainment to our life. But metaverse games will be providing the following things.
- Immersive Experience
- Earn by playing games
- Earn assets that will be exclusively for you in form of NFT
- Emotion
- Aspiration
- Progression
- Socialization
All these things will make you feel connected to experience. Games like Minecraft and Roblox have been doing some part of this in these years. Game is the best real life use case of the metaverse right now.
SOCIAL EXPERIENCE
Metaverse is bringing social experiences even though you are playing games in it. If you have played Roblox, you have already seen it. There are a lot of applications for just connecting people socially through the metaverse. A time will come where metaverse social media will be an indispensable part of your life.
Metaverse is going to replace the real world third place. The first place is our home, work is the second place and the third place is places where people socialize, chat, etc. like bars, clubs, parks, etc. Metaverse is going to replace it. Metaverse is going to be the third place.
IMMERSIVE COMMERCE
Just as you play games and have social experience, metaverse will bring immersive commerce experience in your life. The experience of going to the store with your friend or a family member in metaverse will be completely different than physical shopping.
You are going to see more of the in-store experience come alive in the metaverse. Companies like Shopify have already started this. They are showing how you can use augmented reality and virtual reality to experience products before you actually buy them.
Walmart have recently showcased their metaverse version of their shop. There will be a virtual assistant to guide you to shop. Immersive commerce is one of the real life use cases of the metaverse.
REAL ESTATE
Real Estate is one of the best examples of metaverse use cases. You can already take 3D tours of houses, property in the metaverse.
There is a company called Matterport. This company is creating immersive 3D modes or the digital twins for promoting properties for sale or rent, for planning construction projects, or capturing special places.
TRAVEL
Everyone loves to travel. But, it is impossible for you to visit every places on the earth or place you kike to vist due to many constraint like time, money, work, etc.
Metaverse is going to make this possible for us to do this. So, the company already discussed above Matterport is making this possible.They are making some places like Egyption Heritage site Into 3D models where you can virtually visit them. This is a form of metaverse.
In the future, think about all of this when you can converge travel with AI, Drones, real time telepresence, etc. You can go and explore a travel destination with your friends and family by sitting in your room. This will be a social experience you are doing in realtime in those spaces.
ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING DESIGN
Metaverse is going to be the center of architecture engineering and design. Actually, you will spend most of your time in the metaverse. So, you need to create spaces that other users will be in.
The space, digital twin, etc is created by Nvidia Ominiverse. You will get a brief summary of metaverse in this blog post.
Omniverse let’s different designer to work together to shape a physical space that actually can take inputs from things like AI, Fluid dynamics. AIrflow traffic patterns.
All the information is p[rocessed by AI, ML, etc and create a simulation as if in the real world. Real life use case of the metaverse is applied in the following sectors.
- Automotive Sector for designing vehicles, engines, etc and simulating them.
- Telecommunication Sector.
- And many more.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Education and Training is the real life use case of the metaverse. Education and training is enhanced by the metaverse.
Skill based training is one of the best real life use cases of the metaverse. Augmented Reality is used in a metaverse environment to show you how to fix things, repair things and act as a user manual.
Educational programs like science, social studies and other fields of knowledge are enhanced using metaverse. It allows you to do simulation or interact in a more hands-on way through virtual immersion.
In metaverse education and training, you can bring the best scholars, educators and trainers from all over the world and make them more accessible to the learners.
FITNESS
Fitness is one the best real life use cases of the metaverse. Here are some real life use case of the metaverse.
- Gamification of the fitness experiences
- Move-to-Earn(M2E) application like STEPN
- Supernatural VR
Supernatural VR is a highly gamified fitness application. This application lets you do exercises by playing games.
MUSIC & VIRTUAL CONCERT
Music is one the cool real life use cases of the metaverse. Fortnite and Roblox have already hosted virtual concerts where millions of users attended at a time.
Here is some list of metaverse concerts that have already happened.
- Ariana Grande performed a live concert in Fortnite in October of 2021. It was attended by 78 millions users of Fortnite.
- Travis Scott also performed live in Fortnite in 2020. It attracted 12 million players of Fortnite.
- On 19th November of 2021, Justin Bieber performed live for 30 minutes in a virtual music metaverse called Wave.
CONCLUSION
There are many other real life use case of the metaverse like immersive theater, esports, etc. In this blog post, I have highlight 11 real life use case of the metaverse. Metaverse have real life use case in fitness, health, games, social experience, travel, music, education and training, travel, real estate, factory, etc.
In the upcoming post, I will highlight more real life use case of the metaverse. In meantime, take some time to experience these real life use case of the metaverse.
