Nvidia's new Voyager campus is serving as a test ground for what it
will look like when then Metaverse meets the physical world.
One of the most powerful men in tech thinks that the metaverse — a
term for a series of interlinked, persistent virtual worlds with
self-contained economies — is just around the corner.
One of the most exciting use cases for blockchain and NFTs, enthusiasts inspired by Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash
have long been hoping for a VR/AR world with a crypto-powered internal
market. Now, however, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang thinks the technology to
make it happen is on our doorstep.
Speaking at the virtual
Computex conference, Huang said that he “believe(s) we’re right on the
cusp of” the metaverse and spoke glowingly of its potential, according
to a transcript
of a Q&A session he had with reporters — going as far as to say
that users will one day use metaverses to “simulate the future.”
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“There
will be AR versions, where the art that you have is a digital art. You
own it using NFT. You’ll display that beautiful art, that’s one of a
kind, and it’s completely digital. You’ll have our glasses on or your
phone. You can see that it’s sitting right there, perfectly lit, and it
belongs to you. We’ll see this overlay, a metaverse overlay if you will,
into our physical world,” he said.
He noted that Nvidia is
already using a VR version of Nvidia’s new office building to test these
theories, a campus that the company has dubbed “Voyager.” Among the
world’s largest manufacturers of GPUs, Nvidia used supercomputers to
“simulate architecture” for Voyager, helping with design and ecological
efficiency, and eventually the company will allow employees to attend
work by wearing VR headsets from home and controlling robots to move
about the physical office space, a joint VR/physical workplace hybrid.
“This
building completely exists in VR. We designed it completely digitally.
We’re going to build it out so that there will be a digital twin of this
very physical building in VR. We’ll be able to simulate everything,
train our robots in it. We can simulate how best to distribute the air
conditioning to reduce the energy consumption [...] We can simulate all
of that in our digital twin, our building metaverse, before we deploy
anything here in the physical world. We’ll be able to go in and out of
it using VR and AR.”
Huang isn’t the only CEO who has
weighed in on NFTs and the Metaverse as of late, though he’s certainly
the most optimistic. In January Fortnite founder Tim Sweeney said that
NFTs are the most “plausible” path towards a functioning metaverse, but for now they remain a “speculative mess.”
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