Confidential Presented by Waheng Chang 2021 Nov
Metaverse - An attraction of new identity
Sharing in: France Macau Chamber of Commerce
Speaker: Waheng Chang

Presented by Waheng Chang
Content
1.About me
2.History about the industry AR/VR
A brief about the AR/VR industry, how far did it go? And
what is the Obstacle?
3. What is Metaverse
3.1 How many “Universe” is there? What is the similarity
and difference?
3.2 Metaverse may look like
4.About the ecosystem

1.About me
2013-2015 Human Interaction(AR/VR)
2015-2018 ECommerce (Large Scale)
2018-2019 Fintech
2019-Present Startup (Technology)
Waheng Chang, a Macau native living in
Taiwan and the United States, has
worked in technology industry for more
than 11 years, projects and products were
selected on world class exhibition such
as CES, MWC and Computex.

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2.History about the
industry of AR/VR

1st iPhone
2007/06/29
1st Android
2008/09/23
Pokémon GO
2016/07/06
2009-2011
4G
2G,3G

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2014 - pioneer in the virtual interaction on 3G~4G age

2014 - A demo of new way of
ECommerce, virtual shopping with
HTC Vive link

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AR Ecommerce platform is launch on 2014, feature of furniture one-click
purchase within AR sense, it was a innovative shopping behavior.
2014

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Partnership with Google (google glass, Tango), intel,
Microsoft (hololens).
2016

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What makes Whatsapp so popular
Internet related Innovative product, need to
break through existing(rely on ) technical
bottlenecks in order to become viral.
“Push Notification (2009 Apple
feature)” makes Whatsapp became
Viral.
Lesson from Whatsapp

What made VR/AR not
popular ? (before 2018)

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What made VR/AR not popular (before 2018)
No one like to wear such
big plastic in everyday life,
even worse with wire.
Wireless glasses, battery
and GPU ?
Human is sensitive
about movement of
hands.
Obstacle

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3. What is Metaverse

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Metaverse
A Book From 1992 Predicted Mark Zuckerberg's
Eerie Vision For 'Metaverse'
In the novel, users are represented by avatars and can
interact with other human beings and software agents. A
software agent is a computer program that acts for a
user.
Written by author Neal
Stephenson and published in
1992 (source)

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Trendy metaverse projects in 2021
Metaverse
（Facebook）
Microsoft Mesh
(Microsoft Team)
Horizon
Workrooms
（Facebook-Oculus）
Omniverse
（NVIDIA）
video

Introducing Microsoft Mesh. 2021/03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd2GK0qDtRg&ab_channel=Microsoft
Microsoft Ignite with Satya Nadella
24:30-27:34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-uwSTuFKf4&ab_channel=CNETHighlights

Horizon Workrooms - Remote Collaboration Reimagined
. 2021/08/19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgj50IxRrKQ&ab_channel=Oculus

Watch Nvidia's Deep Fake of CEO Jensen
Huang at GTC (Behind the Scenes) 2021/05
0:39-end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_V30ueEXE4&ab_channel=CNETHighlights
NVIDIA Omniverse #CreateYourRetroverse
Contest Teaser #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSOY8yfKSA&ab_channel=NVIDIAOmniverse

Facebook official metaverse introduction. 2021/10/29
What is it : 0:00- 2:21
AUthor Interview: 6:55-7:49
Next Quest: 7:53-9:39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gElfIo6uw4g&ab_channel=CNET

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Trendy metaverse projects in 2021
Metaverse
（Facebook）
Microsoft Mesh
(Microsoft Team)
Omniverse
（NVIDIA）

Metaverse
（Facebook）
Microsoft Mesh
(Microsoft Team)
Omniverse
（NVIDIA）
It is a platform, can open
your shop, or experience
lifestyle here.
It is a virtual office, base
on Team, a place for
teamwork and
knowledge transfer.
The best 3D content
creating manufactury,
a realistic virtual world.
The differences
between the 3
universe

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3.1 Universes is
composed of …

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Similarity
3D Avantor Content Gesture Recognition
3d Facial Reconstruction

Technological Elements
AR Glasses
VR Glasses
Inductive Gloves
Inductive
Armor
3D Avantor
Content
Eyes Tracking
3d Facial
Reconstruction
Gesture
Recognition
Image: Ready One Player

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Headset - VR Glasses
Oculus Quest 2: The $299
VR headset.
link
HCT flow, $499 HTC Vive Pro 2: $799 link

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Headset - AR Smartglasses
HoloLens 2: $3,500 Magic Leap 1 AR: $2,291 Ray-Ban Stories
(Facebook): $299

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Glove
Power Glove, Reality Labs is working on clothing that helps you
feel things in the metaverse.
2021/11/17
Source:
https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/11/17/2278
7191/facebook-meta-haptic-glove-metaverse

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3.2 Metaverse
may look like

Searching
Entertainment
Solution
Monopoly Platform Motivation
Advertisement

Motivation Need
Products/
Services
Advertisement System

Online, We behave different
New Identity
We search for the keywords that we won’t ask,
we are brave enough to shout, when no one knows us.
And Social Media knows.

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Grand Theft Auto
similar life
In GTA, you will have your house,
groups of friends, earning virtual
currency by completing missions.
Then, spend the money to purchase
your assets, such as armor, cars,
island or luxury Fashion.
GTA San Andreas Enters The Metaverse, Via Oculus
Quest 2
https://kotaku.com/gta-san-andreas-enters-the-metaverse-via-oculus-
quest-1847957846

An attraction of new
identity

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4. About the
ecosystem

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1. Nvidia Corporation
2. Microsoft Corp.
3. Roblox Corp.
4. Facebook Inc.
5. Unity Software Inc.
6. Snap, Inc.
7. Autodesk Inc.
8. Amazon Com Inc.
9. Tencent HLDGS LTD
10. Sea LTD
What companies are building the metaverse?
Sea is a consumer internet company that includes
entertainment, e-commerce and digital
financial services. Tencent Holdings is a
multinational internet company based in China.
Apple, Intel, Qualcomm, Alphabet, Coinbase,
Electronic Arts, Samsung, Adobe, Alibaba, Disney,
PayPal and Square are also in the fund.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/metaverse-what-is-it/

The ecosystem of Metaverse

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Log of Facebook about Metaverse
1. 2014/08 Facebook acquired Oculus
2. 2016/02 Facebook brings VR 360 Video to new feed (NASA Mars Video)
3. 2016/12/28 Facebook acquired Danish eye tracking startup.
4. 2019/02 Facebook released Oculus Quest
5. 2021/10/18 Facebook to hire 10,000 in EU to work on metaverse (coming 5 years)
6. 2021/10/28 Facebook company is now Meta

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Reference
● https://www.slideshare.net/MetaverseOne/the-evolution-of-the-web?qid=3154c8
7b-ff23-4265-aa1b-c4c9e6faaab2&v=&b=&from_search=1
● https://www.slideshare.net/jradoff/building-the-metaverse-248941223?qid=3154c
87b-ff23-4265-aa1b-c4c9e6faaab2&v=&b=&from_search=5
● https://www.engadget.com/oculus-quest-2-review-vr-facebook-headset-173026291.html

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