Is Metaverse Really the End of Barriers for Architects?

Everyone mentions the Metaverse, but no one can really agree on what it is. It remains cryptic for the time being, yet it looks like its ambiguity is its strength. There are articles and videos on this topic that try to persuade people that Metaverse will unavoidably enter our daily life shortly on a daily basis. Since it is a spatial innovation that necessitates a 3D redesign of the Internet, architects and designers are crucial participants in the continuing conversation.

When architects consider this new world within the constraints of real-world building, they initially celebrate the "infinite possibilities" of the Metaverse. Structure, materiality, and cost, according to Leon Rost, director of BIG, "all go out the window" in the metaverse, whereas Rashed Singaby, senior project designer for HOK, thinks that "between designing for the metaverse and harnessing its possibilities, the potential is practically endless." For architects, who have been building as though resources were boundless for decades but are now being forced to limit their ideas due to the current ecological and economic problems in the globe, the metaverse feels like a light at the end of the tunnel as an infinite realm.

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However, rather than being an endless realm, the creation of a virtual environment—experienced simultaneously by the masses—still has its constraints, such as budget, gravity, or material availability.

Considering that the environment and structures in the Metaverse won't be physically built, architects won't have to worry about hiring contractors, managing projects, or dealing with disgruntled clients who gripe about the costs. This time, however, architects will still work in a team to create virtual habitats with UI-UX designers, software developers, and coders who also require time and resources to build a virtual environment.

The Department of Computer Engineering at MEF University's Dr. Tuna akar, an expert in augmented reality and virtual reality, warns us that money is still a major barrier, particularly as Metaverse's architectural designs become more dynamic and personalised. It would be a squandered opportunity if architecture in the Metaverse did not take advantage of the potential of cutting-edge technology like big data, AI, and AR/VR. However, it becomes more time- and money-intensive if the architectural design is integrated with programming, coding, or computation. Although Metaverse architects frequently overlook financial concerns, creating a virtual universe may be just as expensive as creating a real one.

Double-ganger of real-life or a new universe?

Although Metaverse has been described as a brand-new digital cosmos brimming with prospects, its primary activities—for the time being, given the explosive growth of cryptocurrencies—are almost identical to those of our everyday lives: shopping and commerce. The primary activity of the existing metaverses primarily revolves around buying and selling, whether it is real estate or clothing. Even the parcelization procedures in this innovative world, where a ruler divides a virtual map into grids, mimic the long-established cartography techniques.

For some people, the metaverse will be like a duplicate of reality, complete with all the flaws and details that come with it. But does it make sense to invest so much time and effort on mimicking actual life? Instead of reproducing our real estate aspirations or planning traditions for the actual world, which have already had unfavourable effects on the earth, might we come up with new ways to live in a huge, empty universe?

Teddy Bergsman, co-founder of Quixel, argues that it is essential to reconstruct the digital world by scanning real-world things in order to produce more immersive habitats. Quixel aspires to scan the entire world in order to produce convincing digital surroundings. The company's goal of scanning, for example, every rock in the Canyons of Utah is genuine up to a point because the major goal of building immersive virtual worlds is to deceive our minds into believing what we see is real. But what if "novelty and uniqueness," rather than likeness to real-life, is what motivates people to carry on with their daily activities in the digital world?

According to Alper zyurtlu, co-founder of Timelooper, a company that creates virtual settings for clients all over the world, we are still in the early stages of the Metaverse, and this need for realistic environments does not mirror virtual trends everywhere in the world. However, in nations like Japan or South Korea, where consumers continually seek novelty, innovation, and creative digital environments rather than exact reproductions of the actual world, expectations are drastically different from those in the Americas, according to zyurtlu.