What is the Metaverse - that digital, three-dimensional, multiplayer world announced by the "Meta" company?
The road to a virtual world where we will live like in a computer game in the style of the "Matrix" movie series is still far away, but the technology pioneers are already trying to understand what content can be produced for it.
At the end of last week, Meta (the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram) together with the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, hosted a meeting for the developer community of the XR world - a general concept that describes the worlds of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality.
The purpose of the meeting, according to the organizers, was to "channel the Israeli entrepreneurial spirit and turn Israel into a development and research center for the Metaverse."
The meeting dealt with the future of content in the Metaverse, and questions such as - what is actually seen inside the Metaverse?
And what kind of content creators will be able to flourish in this future online space?
The event included the participation of creators who are already developing experiences and content in virtual and mixed reality, and presented tangible examples of how the Metaverse may change the way content is consumed and produced.
Among the experiences presented at the event: "The Spirit Won": a virtual reality tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp created by three ultra-Orthodox female entrepreneurs.
"Place", a story that makes use of negatives taken by Sara Shama in November 1947 in her hometown of Aleppo, in which she documented the centuries-old great synagogue in the city where she grew up, days before it was destroyed).
and the experiences of D-ID, an Israeli startup that makes it possible to create videos based on a single still image and whose technology has been used in prominent Israeli campaigns.
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