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1-Origin of the word metaverse:
The concept “metaverse” was first coined by Neal Stephenson in his novel “Snow Crash” (“The Virtual Samurai”) published in 1992. The author defines “metaverse” as an enormous virtual world, parallel to the physical world, in which users interact through digital avatars. In other words, Neal Stephenson describes in his book a “futuristic dystopian universe, from which the characters can momentarily escape by plunging into a universe of virtual reality, in which everyone can evolve through their avatar”.

2-Orange relies on an alliance with European operators to be in the metaverse:
Orange has announced that it has joined forces with its European partners Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica and Vodafone to develop their own holographic communication platform based on the application of a specialist in the field, the company Matsuko, founded in 2017 to develop the use cases on the metaverse.

3- A major agreement for interoperability in the metaverse network:

Meta, Microsoft, Epic Games and Nvidia form the Metaverse Standards Forum consortium to make the metaverse as accessible as the internet. This new group has set itself the task of defining the rules and standards that will constitute the metaverse of tomorrow. The objective is to promote its interoperability, i.e. to make the metaverse as accessible as possible, between different media for example. In short, make the various virtual worlds the equivalent of today’s websites, and allow navigation between them via a metaverse “internet”.

4- metaverse market:
By the end of 2024 the metaverse market is estimated at 800 billion dollars according to Bloomberg Goldman Sachs firm.

5- Apple and the metaverse:

Apple plans to launch a virtual reality headset adapted to the metaverse at the end of 2023.

6- the metaverse and users according to the consulting firm Gartner:

In 2026, 25% of Internet users worldwide are expected to spend at least one hour a day in the metaverse for work, commerce, training or for various entertainment. Among the activities that will be in greater demand are: tourism (18%), museums (15%), concerts (14%) and fashion (12%). The metaverse promises to revolutionize the field of advertising as well.

7- Facebook will create 10,000 jobs in Europe on the metaverse:
This recruitment plan in Europe is also a way for Facebook to take root more in Europe. The first social network on the planet will recruit 10,000 people over five years in Europe to build the Metaverse, the group announced, knowing that Facebook currently employs around 58,000 people in the world, all trades combined.

8- protection of personal data and the metaverse:
According to the consultant Norbert Faure that all biometric and physiological data emitted by the human body in the metaverse can be recorded and used. There is no doubt that the data collected in metaverses are personal data according to Lawyer Ola Mohty. For this lawyer in the metaverse, users are represented by avatars. There is therefore no doubt that the data collected can be traced back to the individuals concerned and that they are therefore personal data. Several experts assert that political decision-makers must imperatively and quickly define a framework for virtual worlds.

9- Europe lagging behind in the field of metaverse:
In the field of the metaverse with considerable economic stakes, Europe facing the USA, is still looking for its reaction. Massive support for European companies seems necessary. After the cloud, artificial intelligence or blockchain, immersive virtual reality is the new paradigm of the digital world.

10- The first existing virtual dress gift offered:

A long iridescent dress at $9,500. This dress called “Iridescence” is the first 100% virtual garment to have been sold in the world. Designed by The Manufacturer, a Dutch start-up, it is only worn in “augmented reality” (AR), that is to say by having it worn by a digital avatar.

11- Facebook and metaverse:

Since the launch of metaverse on October 28, 2021, Facebook (Meta) has generated some 2.3 billion euros in revenue, thanks to the sale of its Oculus headsets and all its virtual reality services. But it shows, for the moment, more than 10 billion dollars (about 8.7 billion euros) of loss on this network. The firm has created a fund of 150 million dollars to encourage developers to create content on its virtual reality platform, and plans to hire ten thousand in Europe to accelerate on the subject.
12-Metavers: Qualcomm and Microsoft announce a partnership:
The two tech giants will create a chip intended to power augmented reality glasses.

13- Metavers has become a hot topic since 2021:

We started talking about metaverse since Facebook became meta and since Facebook exposed its vision to move to web 3.0. To this end, Facebook has invested more than 13 billion dollars since the beginning of 2021 to carry out its metaverse project. If all goes well, Facebook or Meta aims to connect one billion users to its metaverse network by 2030.
14- Metaverse turnover:
According to the firm Grand View Research (GRV), the turnover linked to the metaverse world could reach 678 billion dollars by 2030.

15- How much time will we spend on metaverse in 2026:

In four years, 25% of Internet users will spend an hour a day in the metaverse, according to Gartner.

16- Marketing and metaverse:

The juggernaut of the professional press has just released a newsletter dedicated to the “marketing metaverse”.

17- Sale of Skins on metaverse:

From 2021 Balenciaga, specializing in the sale of sneakers, handbags and ready-to-wear for women and men, was surprised by the number of virtual “Skins” outfits sold on Fortnite.

18- Interest in metaverse:

Today 62% of French people do not see any interest in the metaverse according to a recent barometer from the Iligo firm.

In the metaverse world, designed using several technologies, each user will have their own avatar, a kind of digital "self", that is to say, an imaginary character they will choose to represent them in this virtual place. Let us recall in passing that the word "metaverse" is made up of "meta" which means transcendent and "vers" which implies "to turn" that has produced several words such as universe, conversation and many more... The metaverse or web 3.0 revolution comes down to the fact that we will not be content, as usual, to look at the screen of our computers, but we will also be completely immersed in the Internet via headsets. Even if the real metaverse networks are, for the moment, at the development stage, several sectors are already rushing to invest in them because, they believe, the metaverse constitutes a new Eldorado to conquer. Thus, brands are already there, such as the “Carrefour” chain, which recently organized virtual job interviews via the Sandbox platform. All the major American firms in the ICT industry crave these new metaverse markets; the GAFAMs (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) as well as their Chinese counterparts, the BATXs (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi) are working hard to conquer a market that is barely emerging. Each giant, American or Chinese, wants to grab a good share of this great and very promising business, since the Bloomberg Intelligence forecasts, that this brand-new activity will attain a turnover of over 800 billion dollars by 2024. For metaverse to function properly at the global level, it is necessary to implement a standardization of the various processes. The metaverse will also require powerful computer processing and sophisticated electronic hardware. Intel, for example, estimates that metaverse requires a 1000-fold increase in the computing power of current computers. Is it already in quantum computing? Metaverse will have, among other advantages, the possibility of offering distance training of such quality that it will be difficult to distinguish the virtual from face-to-face. On the other hand, because of their helmets, metaverse users will have to master the geometric space where they operate. This will be the great challenge for the "metaversers" not to increase the number of accidents as the statistics are beginning to point to serious and real risks. Without neglecting some psychological aspects of this new revolution, such as attachment to one's digital "self" and preferring the virtual world to the detriment of reality and living in society. Several studies have already raised the possibility of users becoming irrationally attached to their avatars, as what it happened to a journalist from the British Times, who spent several hours on a metaverse platform, thus, concluded that the metaverse seems to encourage anti-social behavior. The other drawback, which is not negligible and which will be the subject of Lte magazine next publication, is the environmental impact of the metaverse. In short, metaverse technology seems to be well engaged on the right path, unless the supply of the electronic elements necessary for the metaverse networks is also, being impacted by the current crisis in the global supply chain of electronic components. This file will therefore be simple and complete, starting with this first article which deals with the metaverse in seven points and which will help to better understand everything related to this new technology, and will also propose some expected applications of the metaverse. Furthermore, the legal aspect will be presented as a necessity for the regulation of the metaverse world, and finally, this file will be closed by an interview carried out with Guillaume, an expert in the field of metaverse at Digitevent in France. In the free forum, Ata-ilah Khaouja will review the burning energy news around "Textual sobriety, energetic intoxication". In the telecom section, we will offer you an exceptionally rich article on the history of telecoms, which will retrace, more precisely, the emergence of Moroccan telecoms within the medina of Rabat. And as always, other relevant reading awaits you in the other sections, notably in “events” and “media library”. Ahmed Khaouja ITU expert and director Lte magazine.

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