Metaverse has all the buzz and hype going around itself these days. Especially after the announcement of Meta formerly known as Facebook about their advancements in this metaverse space.

But, what is Metaverse? Why is everyone hyped about it? How is AI used to develop this tech infrastructure?

Let’s dive into answering these questions:

What is Metaverse?

Metaverse is a virtual space built to enhance the combined aspects of social media, online gaming, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and cryptocurrencies to allow users to interact virtually.

Unlike the traditional digital space, you can completely immerse yourself in this virtual world.

Why is everyone, not just the tech world, eagerly waiting for it?

The metaverse is full of unique experiences and unlimited possibilities but they aren’t the only factor that is responsible for all the hype. The key component here is that no one exclusively owns it.

Just like no one owns the internet but almost all the leading internet companies are amongst the most valuable companies in the world.

The metaverse being the successor of the internet is going to become more economically valuable. So, with more reach, time spent and commercial activity metaverse will have more opportunities to grow.

Different areas of AI being used in Metaverse

Technological advancements in the field of artificial intelligence, blockchain, NFTs, etc are majorly responsible for making the metaverse experience life-like.

In a world that is complete, digital AI has become a handy tool for the development of the metaverse and has far more applications than it had in the past.

Let’s look at a few examples of how AI is applied in the metaverse.

Perfectly Developing our Avatars

Avatars will be the soul of the metaverse as they will be our virtual representation. How accurately our avatar resembles us will determine the experience we have in the metaverse.

That is the reason why our avatars are developed using AI. This helps creators to capture every nitty-gritty detail of us including our facial expressions, hairstyle, body posture and even aging helping the avatar be more lifelike.

Digital humans

We all have played or come across open play games like GTA, assassins creed, etc. while roaming around the streets in such games we came across a lot of non-playing characters. Whenever we interacted with such characters we would always get a standard set of reactions.

In the metaverse this isn’t the case, using AI these non-playing characters are developed such that they would respond to our actions dynamically.

Their responses would be similar to interaction with any stranger in the real world.

Multilingual accessibility

This is probably one of the best use-cases of AI in the metaverse as it breaks the shackles of language and brings people on the common pedestal.

When you are interacting with other users of different language backgrounds, the AI quickly converts your language into machine code then back to the language of the receiver and vice versa. This whole process takes place within seconds without causing any sort of lag.

This will help us communicate more efficiently and effectively fostering connections.

Scaling Environment Development

The mechanism of AI depends upon past data you feed it. AI tries to learn from the data and come with outputs of its own. This whole process of reinforcement learning can be utilized for the development of the environment in the metaverse.

NVIDIA, a multinational technology company is using AI to develop a whole metaverse environment at scale depending on the user interactions.

Touch, Feel and Navigate

Now, along with providing great visuals wouldn’t it be great if we could even touch and feel in the metaverse?

For example, if you are hitting some object in the metaverse you should be able to feel that resistance. This is possible using AI-enabled haptic in VR.

Not only that you can also navigate through the metaverse with your voice commands and go hands-free with the help of AI.

Feeling overwhelmed?

The whole concept of the metaverse and its possibility can be very overwhelming. This is where we at Discite Analytics & AI can help you.

Apart from all the conventional implementations of AI like image recognition, prevention of abuse and hate speech, content relevance calculation for minority groups, etc. in the metaverse.

We at Discite can help you with the development of integral applications revolving around 3D avatars and Language Translations in the metaverse. We have a highly experienced team founded by ex-Deloitte and ex-Uber folks that will be more than pleased to help you with your metaverse applications of AI.