Title: Is Cryptovoxels, Supporting Facebook Login, the Future of the Metaverse?

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What is it like to live in the metaverse for a week? Someone spent a week wearing a VR headset in a large multiplayer online virtual reality game called VRChat, and uploaded the experience to a video-sharing site, garnering tens of millions of views.

During the week in the VRChat world, viewers followed the YouTuber to socialize, play games, even take yoga classes and attend concerts in the virtual world.

From the "survival experience" of ordinary people to major companies like Facebook holding meetings in the "metaverse," the experiences of people from Web 2.0 in the "metaverse" are incredibly rich. However, can virtual reality games like VRChat truly be called a "metaverse"? Or is it the old adage: if the server shuts down, you will have nothing.

This is the most intuitive distinction between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.

The most experienced "metaverse" for people in Web 3.0 is Cryptovoxels, where the community often spontaneously organizes explorations in the world of Cryptovoxels. Although the visuals and immersion of Cryptovoxels are much weaker than VRChat, in the world of Cryptovoxels, users' assets are genuinely owned by them, such as a table or a sculpture. Even if the server shuts down, these assets can be placed in other metaverse platforms. If you ask why people would move from the highly immersive VRChat to Cryptovoxels, it must be for this reason.

With the support of NFTs, users can truly hold their assets in their hands. However, as a blockchain application, users need to learn about blockchain, remember their wallet's mnemonic phrase, and the high barrier to entry keeps countless Web 2.0 users at bay.

In mid-October, Cryptovoxels officially stated that it was considering supporting Twitter and Facebook as login methods. Recently, Cryptovoxels has supported Facebook login, allowing Facebook users to obtain a brand new Ethereum address through the Torus wallet, with the private key retrievable in the Torus wallet. In this way, the 2.7 billion Facebook users worldwide can seamlessly enter the world of Web 3.0, and Cryptovoxels has opened its doors to residents of Web 2.0.

Regarding "first-class ideas, third-class implementation" and "first-class implementation, third-class ideas," Jack Ma and Masayoshi Son chose the latter, but Cryptovoxels firmly chose the former. In fact, Cryptovoxels' choice is constrained by virtual reality technology and time; the immersive experience requires applications to develop over a long period and also depends on the development of hardware and software like VR glasses and real-time rendering.

In terms of ideas, Cryptovoxels is already at the forefront of the times.

Does Virtual Land in the Metaverse Have Value?

In the eyes of most people, the most important aspect of metaverses like Cryptovoxels, Decentraland, and The Sandbox is virtual land, and there have been waves of real estate speculation in various metaverses. Now, the land in Decentraland has long been sold out, and users need to pay high prices to buy a piece of virtual land from other users, while each land sale in The Sandbox sells out in seconds, with secondary market prices already multiplied several times.

Does virtual land in the metaverse need to have scarcity like in the real world? Cryptovoxels believes it does not, which is why the land in Cryptovoxels is infinitely issued. Since its inception in June 2018, Cryptovoxels has never conducted financing, only expanding its team from Ben Nolan alone to more than ten people through land sales, and the team continues to grow.

Although the current prices of land in Cryptovoxels' secondary market remain high, and many "big landlords" own hundreds of plots, once people understand the good intentions of the Cryptovoxels team and realize that virtual land itself has no value, everyone will be able to afford a piece of virtual land that belongs to them.

The Value of Metaverse Land Comes from Creativity

If the land in the metaverse itself has no value, then what is truly valuable?

It is those "first-class ideas," which is to say, "creativity."

Future Plans for Cryptovoxels

For the Cryptovoxels team, "creativity" refers to the planning for the project's future. Cryptovoxels is not complacent but continues to think about the future.

As a Web 3.0 application, Cryptovoxels is also considering developing in a more decentralized direction in the future. Ben Nolan has shared his thoughts on social media, suggesting that in the future, the Cryptovoxels team may no longer sell any land but will instead mint land for users individually when they submit requests.

Replacing the current "hunger marketing" with this on-demand supply method will weaken the speculation of virtual land on one hand and prevent resource waste on the other, as many "big landlords" are not making good use of their land, leaving large areas of the Cryptovoxels world looking particularly desolate.

Cryptovoxels developer Benjy also proposed another possibility: in the future, a "mayor" role may be introduced in the Cryptovoxels metaverse, with "mayors" of each area elected by landowners to promote faster, more stable, and orderly development of this virtual world, making the Cryptovoxels metaverse more colorful.

The powerful creativity of the Cryptovoxels team is the guarantee of Cryptovoxels' value.

Fully Released Creativity

These "first-class ideas" come not only from the Cryptovoxels team but also from the creative residents within the Cryptovoxels metaverse.

The most direct manifestation of creativity is architecture. In the Cryptovoxels metaverse, people no longer need to adhere to the laws of the real world, consider material costs, or think about physical laws; creativity can be fully unleashed.

In addition to conventional buildings, "illegal constructions" shine in the Cryptovoxels metaverse. Each piece of land in Cryptovoxels has height and area restrictions, but these limitations can only restrict what people build in Cryptovoxels, not the size of models uploaded by users. Users can complete modeling first and then import it into Cryptovoxels, breaking through the limitations and allowing them to express their creativity more freely.

Lands by the sea are the first choice for players keen on building "illegal constructions," which has also driven up the current prices of seaside land.

The Cryptovoxels team does not seem to plan to crack down on "illegal constructions," as ensuring everyone can fully showcase their creativity is a necessary condition for the continuous appreciation of the entire metaverse.

Business Models in the Cryptovoxels Metaverse

Beyond architecture, the most evident reflection of the residents' "creativity" is the various business models that have emerged over time. Simply put, the things people can do in the metaverse are increasing, and with buildings, how to "utilize" them is also a skill.

First, once people own a piece of land, they need to build on it, but not everyone has this capability, hence the emergence of "metaverse construction teams."

The most famous "construction team" currently is Voxel Architects, responsible for the massive pool in Origin City, the SpaceX base in Cryptovoxels, and more. High-quality constructions have also garnered these lands extremely high traffic.

Once the land is built, users can host various events in the buildings.

The most common is crypto art exhibitions, where users can directly display their creations or NFTs from collectors in the buildings, and viewers can click to jump to the purchase page. During large art exhibitions, attendees can easily teleport to other exhibition halls with just a click.

Some project launch ceremonies have also chosen to be held in the Cryptovoxels metaverse. Previously, a common method was to hold launch ceremonies in Discord's voice channels, where project teams and guests shared their feelings via voice and video, while in the metaverse, everyone can celebrate in a meticulously constructed venue.

Additionally, in September this year, someone even held a wedding for two NFT avatars in Cryptovoxels.

It can be seen that activities in the metaverse are no longer limited to art exhibitions, and in the future, there will certainly be more diverse activities held in the Cryptovoxels metaverse, turning people's creativity into reality.

In Cryptovoxels, landlords use their power to forge wearable equipment, which are the clothes of digital avatars in the Cryptovoxels metaverse. However, not every landlord possesses this skill, and not every user is a landlord, which has led to the emergence of "metaverse commercial streets." While exploring, clicking on a favorite voxel model can redirect users to OpenSea for trading.

If you often explore in Cryptovoxels, you must have seen similar buildings: small land area, minimalist decoration, and large billboards.

The metaverse needs advertising, and since virtual land is much larger than the real world, relying on advertising to expand visibility becomes crucial. The advantage of the Cryptovoxels metaverse, where users can reach other areas through a portal device, also allows advertisements to work better.

This is what Metaverse Billboards are doing. Many users from China affectionately refer to it as the "metaverse version of Focus Media."

Metaverse Billboards are spread throughout the metaverse

As the Cryptovoxels metaverse takes shape, the demand for data analysis becomes urgent. Due to team size and workload limitations, the Cryptovoxels team has not provided data analysis services, so some residents of the metaverse have spontaneously started conducting data analysis and sharing it with other users.

For example, MetaCat, founded by CK, a data analyst from the Cryptovoxels community, allows users to clearly query important information and data such as traffic for each plot, average land prices on each island, and beginner guides on its website.

The creativity of the team and residents drives the rapid development of Cryptovoxels. As development progresses, people's immersion and experience in this metaverse will greatly enhance, making Cryptovoxels increasingly resemble the metaverse we envision.

Now, Facebook, Tencent, and Alibaba have all expressed intentions to enter the metaverse field, and the metaverse is being frequently mentioned in various contexts. In the future, there may even be billions of users entering various metaverses. As a leader in the metaverse of the Web 3.0 world, Cryptovoxels has already extended an olive branch to countless users from the Web 2.0 world.

The metaverse eliminates barriers and obstacles related to race, geography, and more for people from all over the world, giving everyone a chance to become friends. In the metaverse, everyone's creativity will be fully unleashed. Undoubtedly, the metaverse will be the future.

Currently, Cryptovoxels' visual effects may not compare to the "metaverses" that major companies are about to launch, but that is just a matter of time. Moreover, the "metaverse" that industry giants will launch must rely on some centralized server and is merely a virtual reality game, not a true "metaverse."

At the same time, Cryptovoxels provides residents of the Web 2.0 world with an excellent opportunity to seamlessly experience the blockchain world, easily understand what decentralization is, and recognize the importance of decentralization in the metaverse. A decentralized metaverse is the true metaverse and the future of this world.

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