Metaverse and games
The new wireless augmented reality (VR) headset'Oculus Quest 2', which Facebook launched in more than 20 countries around the world in 2020, has sold more than 1.1 million units worldwide by the end of last year.
As the popularization of VR is predicted, various game engines support functions suitable for metaverse in earnest. In the industry, contents such as Augmented Reality (VR), Extended Reality (XR), and Mixed Reality (MR) are expected to gain strength.
Market research firm Strategy Analytics predicts that metaverse-related device sales alone will reach about 300 trillion won in 2025.
Of these, games are the most advanced areas in accepting the metaverse. Given the nature of games that lavishly'waste' the latest technology, it seems clear that games will play a major role in the upcoming metaverse era.
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Steven Spielberg's World
As the metaverse has become a hot topic recently, the movie 'Ready Player One' is drawing attention.
Metaverse is a compound word of meta and universe, meaning virtual and transcendence, meaning virtual world (VR).
'Ready Player One' is a film directed by Steven Spielberg, a master of science fiction genre films, and tells the story of the future in which VR became popular.
'Oasis', which can be played with VR gear, is a game where you can do anything and go anywhere, and it is a space where everything from building a house in the world of Minecraft to skiing in a pyramid is possible.
In the movie, advanced technologies that are likely to emerge in the future, such as VR, holograms, and unmanned drones, appear, and the most important point is that this work was released in 2018, three years ago.
It does not stop with the appearance of the virtual world, but also builds a unique worldview called'oasis' and deals with the problems that may arise after that.
Oasis is the only space where people can escape from a beggar reality, where people can overcome their shortcomings and challenge things they couldn't do by bumping into the walls of reality.
However, since virtual currency there is a value similar to real money, there are also people who are obsessed with games without taking care of real life work or home.
When a character dies, all the money and items he had saved disappeared, sometimes committing suicide, and also creating companies that collect money by exploiting people's labor.
101 operates an anti-human loyalty center and secures in-game capital, but is trapped in a box and repeatedly carries heavy bombs in the game.
There is also a scene where you play the game as if you were working to break the mission that Holliday had made.
However, it shows serious problems from the beginning, not starting heavy, but starting lightly and developing so that you can gradually immerse yourself, and the ending continues with solving this problem.
The most complete way to describe an oasis
'Ready Player One' starts with a retro, lively background music, and the music contrary to the house piled up on a steel structure gives a fresh feeling.
When the protagonist comes down from the house, it naturally reflects the appearance of a delivery drone or playing sports and games while wearing a VR device at home.
In this scene, the current situation is implicitly conveyed, and the background of the film is explained to the audience with a few words in a short period of time.
I think it's a perfect starting scene that makes audiences immerse themselves in a movie just like people immersed in an oasis.
Movies that look as much as you know
Holliday, the creator of'Oasis', has three missions left, the first of which is a racing game.
In racing, you can find traces of various works, such as King Kong, a long-loved Hollywood favorite, and Tyrannosaurus, the rise of Jurassic Park, the director's work.
In addition, various elements that can be found in popular culture, from Overwatch's Tracer to Atari 2600, appear, and I think it may be the fun element that Spielberg has hidden, like Holiday, where several Easter eggs are hidden.
The best scene I personally picked is this one.
It would be hard to believe anyone who saw the movie, but in the scene showing racing for the first time, there is no background music at all.
Usually in urgent scenes or action movies, magnificent music is essential, but it fills the scenes so that you don't realize that there is no music here.
This is the best scene that covers everything with the director's imagination, gorgeous camera walking, and realistic sound effects that make up the track.
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When the movie was released, the fact that traces and characters from various movies appeared was also an attractive factor.
There are countless movies that can be found in the movie: Back to the Future, Terminator, Star Wars, Zootopia, The Lord of the Rings, Monsters, Inc., Transformers, Toy Story, Avatar, and Harry Potter.
In addition, various games and animations also appear, ranging from Overwatch, which attracted the most attention, to StarCraft, Minecraft, Angry Birds, Undertail, SpongeBob, and Simpsons.
There is a scene in the movie advertising a VR suit, There are also characters who watch 3D rendered images.
Also, the classic horror movie 'Shining' reproduces the scenes in the movie as it is with a large weight.
It was fascinating that she put her most regretful moments in a movie she watched with her, and that her favorite dance is to perform her mission.
Afterwards, missions to unravel the games of Atari 2600 appeared, and various games of memory appeared.
I think it's a movie that all generations can recall their own memories.
