The "Metacosm" has recently been brushed!
First, "a piece of virtual land sold for more than 27 million days" caused a hot discussion;
Later, it was revealed that the concept game was subjected to a large-scale network attack, and hundreds of thousands of users were hacked.
Someone bought a piece of virtual land for 27.4 million
Recently, on the virtual reality platform "sandbox", a piece of digital land knocked out by program code sold for 4.3 million US dollars, about 27.4 million yuan.
The buyer claimed to be a real estate company in the "metacosmic" world.
A week ago, another piece of metaverseal virtual land was sold for only 56% of the "sandbox" piece of land. The trading price almost doubled in a matter of days.
The so-called metaverse "real estate" is actually a part of the virtual space in the metacosm. After owning these virtual spaces or meta-universe properties, they can be built and renovated, shopping malls can be opened, can be used as museums to display virtual collections, and of course, can be rented directly.
Lin Junjie also spent 780,000 yuan to buy 3 plots of land
In November this year, there was an outbreak of real estate transactions in the meta-universe. According to Dapp, in the week from November 22 to 28, the total trading volume of the four most major meta-universe real estate trading platforms was close to $106 million.
In the domestic "Rainbow Universe" game, which has been hyped up a few days ago, some players have grabbed rare properties, and the price of more than 900,000 yuan has been hung on the second-hand trading platform.
Earlier this month, Lin Junjie also posted on social media that he bought three virtual lands on the "distributed continent". According to foreign media estimates, Lin Junjie spent about $123,000 (about 784,000 yuan) to buy the three plots.
According to The China Economic Weekly, Hong Kong media reported that on December 9, Hong Kong real estate giant and CEO of New World Development Group Zheng Zhigang announced an investment in the meta-universe virtual world game "The Sandbox" to purchase one of the largest digital plots in The Sandbox. According to people familiar with the matter, Zheng Zhigang invested about $5 million (about 32 million yuan) in this virtual land.
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Many netizens were directly stunned in place
I didn't understand, but I was blown away!
There are also doubts
Is this an IQ tax?
When netizens are talking about it
Some people have already started to make money on the concept of a "metacosm"
The "Meta-Universe" training instructor earns 1.6 million yuan in 10 days
According to CCTV financial reports, some training projects related to the meta-universe are sought after on the online course platform.
Screenshots of the background of the "Meta-Universe First Lesson" system show that only ten days after the training program was launched, the number of paid users reached 2673, and the cumulative income was nearly 1.6 million yuan. At present, many courses of the same type have occupied the home page of major online course platforms.
Online course instructors selling concepts to rub heat is still understandable
But it seems to be a tourist attraction that has nothing to do with the "metacosm"
I also got my idea
Recently, Zhangjiajie Scenic Area officially announced the establishment of the first meta-universe research center in the national scenic spot. However, netizens did not buy it, and questioned whether the scenic spot did not have the qualifications and strength to do "meta-universe" research.
In this regard, the head of the center admitted that the institution does have the intention of rubbing the heat of the "meta-universe".
Selling milk tea and selling ham
Yaihiro "Former Universe"
The data shows that as of now, the total number of trademark applications with "metacosm" in the name has exceeded 7700.
Before September 22, the number of companies participating in the application was only about 130, and a month later, the number increased to about 400.
Up to now, the number of companies participating in the application has increased to more than 1,000.
Some well-known enterprises in various fields in China have also joined the ranks of applying for meta-universe related trademarks:
In September, Tencent, iQiyi, Ideal Automobile, Xiaohongshu, Nubia and other enterprises issued applications;
In October, huanrui century, netease and other companies;
In November, companies such as Xiaopeng Automobile and Weilai Automobile also began to "enter the list" application ranks.
Even Honey Snow Ice City, which sells milk tea, and Shuanghui, which sells ham, have not missed this wave of applications.
SAIC Motor applied for the registration of nearly 100 trademarks containing the words "Cheyuan Universe" in one go.
The "metaverse" has mixed reviews
Along with the surging boom of the metaverse, the voices of doubt about it have gradually increased. Is the metaverse an opportunity or a trap? There are mixed reviews of this.
The People's Daily issued an opinion two days ago: from virtual to real, from seeing and touching, there is still a long way to go, you may wish to think calmly and twice.
Liang Jianzhang, co-founder of Ctrip Group: The metaverse is becoming more and more able to simulate and distort the truth, can create all kinds of fun at low cost, and can even replace family and love, which will create problems, which will bring various risks.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple: Not interested in the buzzword "metaverse", preferring to see the current trend as a development of augmented reality (AR) technology.
Song Jiaji, president of Guosheng Securities Blockchain Research Institute: The popularity of the metacosm is essentially a reflection of the progress and development of basic science and technology. In the long run, it will be an improvement in production efficiency and social operation efficiency. It will create an incremental social value in the future.
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This article is synthesized from: Morning News, CCTV, CCTV Finance, etc
WeChat Editor: Jia Simin
Proofreading: Anton