Metaverse is the latest hot topic in discussions today in the tech, business communities. With the entrance of Facebook and Microsoft, the metaverse investments have been rising. In this article, we’ll discuss how to develop a metaverse app. Before we begin, let’s clear the concept first.
Think of metaverse as a digital virtual space. A digital representation of the places, destinations, businesses, etc, and the best part is you can go around in these digital spaces as personalized digital avatars and interact with others. The concept relies on Augmented reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality technologies to create experiences for people who want to live in a digital world.
Still not clear about the concept? Let’s see an example.
Imagine you work in an office. Unfortunately due to a pandemic, the office had shut down and employees had to work from home. What if you have an option to put on a VR headset and find yourself in the digital version of your office, in which the digital version of your colleagues interact with you, you can walk around and do tasks, and possibly in near future, do your entire work inside the metaverse itself. Sounds very promising for us.
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Metaverse is a term coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 sci-fi novel named Snow Crash. Ever since then, the concept is pursued by many companies. The concept of Metaverses can be found in platforms like VRChat or video games like Second Life. Many different companies want to build their own metaverse. And recently, Facebook and Microsoft have entered the domain, possibly with an intention to build the biggest metaverse.
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In this article, we’ll see how to develop a metaverse app on different metaverse platforms. We’ll start off with the Gometa platform. It enables anyone to create interesting experiences and apps on its metaverse.
Step 1:
Signup on the platform. Once you signup, you’ll see a pretty neat dashboard with the options to create experiences and apps on metaverse.
Step 2:
From the dashboard top right corner, click on the Create Experience button on create a simple experience for a meta object.
Step 3:
What you see in the above image is a storyboard. You can add as many scenes, add interactions and experiences for each scene and interactions and create unique meta experiences.
Step 4:
From the scene menu, you can parse through a lot of options like playing a youtube video, creating a poll, showing a 360 video scene, and a lot more.
The platform also supports a lot of functions that can be used to make interactive experiences. A detailed explanation of creating a metaverse app is available in the video below.
