What started as a concept in the gaming industry has transitioned to an entirely different universe of 3D known as Metaverse. And every enterprise in the technology or entertainment sector wants a piece of it.
We are moving into a surreal age of the digital world. Technologies like artificial intelligence and augmented reality have taken the world by storm.
Metaverse is a world, which doesn’t exist, but you see and experience it anyway because it is all virtual. If you are having difficulty understanding this piece of information, recall fiction flicks like Matrix and Ready Player One. Remember How in The Matrix, as soon as they would get plugged in, they plunged into entirely different worlds, which functioned in ways unknown to the realities of the world we live in.
Everyone in this world is craving fresh and new experiences; this has given birth to an entirely new concept of entertainment known as an immersive experience, which is the principle and bible of the Metaverse. From a click of a button, you can experience what it feels like to be in the jungles of the Amazon or how life would have been in ancient Egypt.
According to a recent market survey, it was reported that the global augmented virtual reality and augmented reality market is valued at around $2.6B in 2018 and is expected to grow to almost $815B by 2025.
This article will talk about significant Metaverses currently and provide you with out-of-the-world immersive experiences you have never had before.
So, watch out for these Top 14 Metaverses.
Sandbox
The Sandbox is an Ethereum based decentralized NFT gaming metaverse. This platform enables tech-savvy players to create, sell, buy, and monetize their virtual reality NFTs.
It is a community-driven platform, and creators can monetize through their creations and gaming experiences on the blockchain. The Sandbox offers complete freedom to showcase and market your creativity and innovation inside your Sandbox. You could host parties, set up exhibitions, create your land, and so much more.
The Whitepaper of the Sandbox is the perfect place to know everything you should know about the platform. The clients of Sandbox referred to as Sand holders, participate in the platform’s governance via a decentralized autonomous organization, making the working of the ecosystem as transparent as it could become.
The Sandbox is a virtue; a world where players/ participants can build, own, monetize their entire gaming experience in Ethereum blockchain using SAND, the token managed by the platform.
Decentraland
Decentraland is a platform where you could create, trade, monetize, and explore the virtual world that the users also own.
With Decentraland, you could create and test the limits of your imagination, which, most of the time, you will surpass by building scenes, artworks, challenges, and even more. It is possible by using the simple builder tool available with the platform. The website has everything for all types of creators; for example, the platform offers the most sophisticated and sought-after tools to make your ecosystem more interactive by filling in social games and multimedia applications.
Metaverse might be virtual, but it still is a universe, and what would the universe be if it didn’t let you communicate, interact and connect with other members of the verse. At Decentraland, you get a chance to explore the Land created by other users and learn a thing or two, even as you get entertained by the completely mesmerizing and never-seen-before experiences.
You could also buy and sell Land, assets like Avatars, wearables, and names in the Decentraland Marketplace, which let me be the first one to tell you it is the most exciting and entertaining place to be. You could stock the latest and best digital goods & paraphernalia backed by the Ethereum blockchain.
The Decentraland also organizes world events to bring the best of the Metaverse to everyone. Some of the complete bangers organized by the platform include Magic Hours, Australian Open Metaverse, Boxhead Friends, and Drop. Buffalo Metaverse Tour and so much more.
Axie Infinity
The platform of Axie Infinity does not tone a bit, what to expect in its Metaverse. You get welcomed by flying robots, hammer-wielding mutants, flying beasts, and beings you have never seen before. As you scroll down a little deeper, the medieval banners completely change the mood and take you by surprise.
Axie Infinity is primarily a game universe filled with exciting creatures known as Axies. Players can pet them and use them to their advantage in building, expanding, or defending their universe, during battles and wars. At a glance, the universe looks like any online multiplayer game where beginners complete quests to gain experience and players at advanced levels declare conflicts and wars against each other using complex strategies and tactics to achieve their loot.
However, the critical difference between Axie and any traditional game is that the blockchain economic design of the platform lets the player create a complex economy within the game universe that is codependent on each other. As the players move towards the advanced stage, they reap the benefits of these economies as rewards and potential resources that have real monetary value because of the open-economic system of the game.
Sorare
If you love playing soccer online, then Sorare is just the thing for you. It offers collectible digital cards to connect trade with other users in the portal’s open marketplace. At Sorare, you get to experience football like never before, bringing fantasy into reality at just a click of a button.
You can also build and manage your squad, using never-used-before strategies, create lineups and earn points based on players’ real-life performances. Doing all this, you get to the part of the experience a deeper connection with football as you watch the chosen one make history on the pitch.
And wait, that’s just not it; based upon your performance in the fantasy league, you get rewards with weekly offers and prizes as you prove your mettle by competing against other managers and climbing up the divisions to beat the game.
Sorare has over 215 officially licensed clubs (the list includes clubs like FC Barcelona FC Bayern Munchen) on the platform, with new clubs joining every week, making the entire ecosystem interesting, entertaining, and competitive at the same time.
The Game in Sorare is a free promotional game organized in several tournaments to promote the main activity of the organizer, creating the best team representing professional football players. The best team is decided by a unique point system that considers players’ actual performances in real life during the tournament. Details about the matches and what it has in store are available on its Game Rules page.
Illuvium
Illuvium is an entirely decentralized RPG adventure and collection game built on Ethereum blockchain and Immutable X L2 Network. Players quest through vast and varied landscapes to hunt and capture magical deity-like creatures called Illuvial.
The game has an interesting timeline for the Metaverse, offering players a treat of story-telling and state-of-the-art designing, making the entire game an immersive experience for the players.
The game has hit the right chords, with actual players and significant corporate players ready to partner with Illuvials in various capacities. They are impressed by its journey and believe in the platform’s promise. These include Bitcoin.com, Immutable X, Lotus Capital, Influx, Blockchain Game Alliance, and many more.
Illuvium is different from the rest of the decentralized gaming platforms because it does not charge GAS fees every time to complete a peer-to-peer transaction. The integration with Immutable X lets you securely maintain the custody of your assets while paying zero gas fees for instant transactions.
In Illuvium, you can build and grow your team by drafting and challenging other players. As you outsmart your opponents with your quick response and strategic maneuver, you earn $ILV, a cryptocurrency also built by the platform and currently valued at $589 and has a liquid diluted market cap of over $5 billion!
Metahero
Metahero is different from all the metaverses we have read about so far. Metahero by Wolf Digital World is the gateway to the Metaverse, instead. It powers Ultra-HD Metascanning Technology and has a powerful crypto token that goes by the name of $HERO.
Metahero brings to the table the coolest part about the virtual world. I would like you to kick in your Ready Player One memories and recall the awesome avatars and gadgets used by the players in the virtual world. Similarly, Metahero offers 3D scanning and modeling technology.
This sophisticated technology can generate ultra-realistic 3D avatars and virtual items for use across games, VR, social media, and online fashion. This tech also allows for creating NFTs from real-world works of art and collectibles.
There are pretty big names in the partnered list of the platform with Tencent as Marketing Partner, KuCoin, and Kanga Exchange Listing Partner, and has been featured by Yahoo Finance, Business Insider, Cointelegraph, MarketWatch, BSC News, Crypto Daily, and Forbes.
Upland
Upland is the brand new NFT metaverse mapped to the real world. It is fast becoming the most significant and most-dynamic blockchain-based economy in the Metaverse. The game enables you to buy, sell and trade virtual properties mapped to confirmed addresses. You could build your house, start a business, and earn UPX coins by selling your properties in a free and open marketplace.
Upland has taken the internet by storm and thrives on the freedom and liberty it provides its players. You could connect with other players, called uplanders, to develop neighborhoods, learn game strategies, and collaborate and hang out in the metaverses’ hangout spaces.
The game’s popularity is such that it’s been covered by almost all significant print and visual media channels across the US. It has received funding in millions over the years, the most recent being $18 million at a $300M valuation. The game has been mentioned in major media portals such as Forbes, VICE, Decrypt, VentureBeat, coin desk, Bitcoin.com, and many others.
My Neighbour Alice
At a glance, My Neighbor Alice reminds me of Farmville, but it has so much more to offer than the latter. It is a blockchain-based multiplayer farm and builder game played by millions of players worldwide. Using the Alice token, you could buy, own, and sell virtual islands, connect and build exciting items and meet new friends.
The game has been popular since its inception, and all the major players in the tech field want a piece of it. These include giants like NGC, ChromaWay, Genesis Block, ASYMM Ventures, box Mining, Kyros Ventures, The Sandbox, Blockchain Game Alliance, Bounce, and so many more.
Let’s talk about the technology used behind this beautiful game. The game backend infrastructure of Alice is based on Chromia. The backend is a Chromia relational blockchain database used in conjunction with Unity for operating accounts, transfer of tokens, relational data progress.
However, the front end of this game is developed in Unity, making sure that users’ experience is seamless and focusing on game loops. Daily activities with player retention are not compromised.
Bloktopia
The Bloktopia Metaverse comprises virtual Real-Estate Blocks, available for block-token holders. The Metaverse is a virtual Skyscraper of 21 levels set to access as a central hub for all information and types of crypto experiences. Built on Learn, Earn, Play, Create principles, the Metaverse offers a range of experiences and avenues for revenue generation by multiple income streams, boasting itself as a land of learning opportunities.
Bloktopia has partnered with Venly, Anzu, Babylons, polygon, and Zokyo and received Animoca Brands as a leading investor and MagicFew as a marketing Partner.
Other prominent platforms that have found associations with Blocktopia include some of the major players of the industry, which include Bitboy Brpto, Genblock Capital, Polygon, AU21 Capitol, Magnus Capital, and many others.
Ertha
Ertha is primarily an explorer game but has a lot of variables that make the experience within the game exciting and entertaining. It is designed to replicate real-life environments, simulating people’s actions to earn their living. Ertha’s globe has 350,000 HEX land plots which could be bought as an NFT.
In December 2021, the renowned Metaverse earned a record-breaking investment of $5.4M and was a leading player in the blockchain and gaming industries.
Star Atlas
Star Atlas provides an entirely new, groundbreaking, and futuristic science fiction experience using the latest technology such as Unreal Engine 5’s Nanite for immersive visuals and cinematic quality. Nanite Graphics Technology will be released to the world in 2021.
Using Nanite compression, the game has developed the ability to simulate real-time environments with the capability of managing billions of polygons.
It is pretty popular among science fiction enthusiasts, and the game has been a hit since the day it was released. It has received funding from the leading investors of the Metaverse space and is covered by major media portals that closely cover development in the metaverse space.
Somnium Space
Soumnium Space is an open Virtual Reality space built on blockchain shaped entirely by players. The space offers its players the to make, buy, and import NFTs for instant use and monetization. The game is available on all major virtual reality PC VR headsets like Oculus, HTC, VIVE, HP, and Valve.
The vision behind the venture is to create a whole new world for the next level of communication, e-commerce, and entertainment. The game offers everything for everyone. The beginners can explore the endless opportunities available to them in the game. In contrast, advanced players can upload full-body avatars and complete scenes on the land parcels inside the Somnium Space.
Ultra
Ultra is different in many ways from the platforms we have read about so far. For stares where rest of the platforms offer you, although an immersive experience, however but in a singular metaverse. Whereas with Ultra, you get to experience various gaming industry services under a single roof, and they are all accessible through a single login, crazy right!
You could discover, buy, and play games, watch live-streaming feeds, interact with your influencers, participate in contests, win tournaments, and so much more. All the contents purchased from the platform are on-chain digital goods, which means you are in as much control of them as you could have been, had they been physical, and another that makes them even better than your physical assets is that they are easily mobile.
Mines of Dalarnia
Mines of Dalarnia is an action-packed adventure game where players mine, collaborate and combine their forces and assets on their way to improving their skills and unlocking in-game secrets and rare items. The minerals mined could be used to upgrade your character and upskill as your level up through the game.
Over the years, the game has gained a loyal fanbase and is a close-knit community with developers, players, stakeholders, and investors in proper communication channels. The game has amassed funding from investors like Animoca Brands, Binance Smart Chain, Bitscale Capital, Chromia, and many others.
Summing Up
Now that you have gone through almost all major players in the metaverse entertainment industry, you might have been able to clear some doubts about the fascinating subject.
The endless list of cryptocurrencies that you see on Binance and other exchange platforms are tokens created and powered by the technology behind these metaverse ventures. So next time you want to buy a few of those, thoroughly research the company’s whitepapers behind it.
And about the list, as discussed, pick your favorite, jump on the meta wagon before the rest of the world, and make your money while being entertained.
