Traveling in Metaverse
Metaverse is a combination of shared virtual and physical spaces, accompanied by combining virtual and augmented spaces that interconnect everyone. It is the next evolution of the Internet, creating more immersive experiences using virtual and augmented reality. This will transform the Hospitality industry starting from virtual traveling in metaverse to enhancing real travel experiences with virtual and augmented reality. You can put your headsets on and travel anywhere in the world. You can be anywhere without trains, planes, or passports.
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Here are some ways that the metaverse will transform the tourism and travel industry:
Free travel
Transporting yourself from one place to another will be free of cost or next to nothing in the Metaverse. In fact, it will be cheaper than traveling in the real world. Although, the real world has its own advantages, but in the metaverse, you can get as close as possible to the real world. Perhaps, the metaverse might even replicate the taste and texture of the real world in the distant future.
Easy, fast, and instant travel
You’ll be free from repeated security checks at the international airports besides you won’t carry any documents and luggage with you either while traveling. You can travel from one place to the next in no time. For example, you can see the entire collection of the Louvre in Paris or take a 360-degree tour of Delhi. You can even visit the pyramids or the Eiffel Tower and do so many exciting and unimaginable things simultaneously.
Traveling in Metaverse with no strings attached
You will be able to travel in any space or universe and choose your environment, costume, avatar, and who you are in that virtual 3D world. The metaverse can provide immersive experiences for discovering new locations on Earth and beyond. It has the potential to change how travelers choose locations and attractions. Furthermore, it has the potential to open up new channels of connection with individuals all over the world.
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Book travel in VR
You will be able to book travel in VR. You can experience your dream locations using virtual reality (VR) before you even go there. Some agents and hotels are encouraging their customers to book trips or hotel stays in a VR world. Many travel providers from trains to planes and airlines are now offering in-flight entertainment in VR. This will become the norm in the future when people will be in a completely different world during their flight.
Hotels & Airbnb
By adopting metaverse technologies, many businesses of hotels and Airbnb can be boosted. Their guests could look around at the spaces they are trying to rent for a more optimized experience. Through 3D hotel tours, clients might examine the dimensions and amenities of the room thereby triggering interest in booking fees. In fact, many hotels have started 360-degree videos of their spaces as a form of guided virtual tours.
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Guided tours
Upon reaching your final destination, tourists can then have guided tours using augmented reality. By using your phone and augmented reality glasses, you’ll have access to guided city tours and more explanations about certain things. For example, when you visit a museum, you can get additional information via VR. Augmented reality will give you a more immersive destination experience. This will eliminate the need to look at a map or brochure since you’ll be guided along the way with the help of the metaverse.
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An enhanced version of travel
Contrary to a popular belief that the metaverse will put an end to travel, the reality is quite different. It would rather create a more extended and enhanced version of our current travel or what we know about travel. We’ll be participating in a virtual environment where we’ll be sharing our thoughts and feelings. This will be the end of limitations for creativity. There’ll be limitless possibilities that will either be created anew or replicated for us to experience and enjoy.
Before the metaverse takes off, access to VR and AR gadgets and glasses needs to be more affordable and widespread. It will pave a way for many companies to increase their user base for their own metaverse projects. For travel industry to boom, the technologies will have to be improved so that the attendees can be more engaged.
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More dynamic activities and traveling all over the world are just some of the things the metaverse could accomplish. We have already seen many examples of virtual communities and technologies pushing us further into that potential future. Once the technology becomes affordable enough for everyone, more and more of these events and potential scenarios would be seen.
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About the Author
Ravish is a New Delhi-based professional blogger and an avid social media expert. He enjoys fine dining, music, and travelling. Ravish specializes in long-form content writing and loves exploring topics on mobile and computer technology. He has a passion for high-tech gadgets and writes about web and mobile applications.
Source of inspiration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hauj-G0dUII
https://www.revfine.com/metaverse-travel/
Metaverse is like a magic wand and surely pits a far-reaching Reality for everyone. Good to read about how it will transform the travel experience when with just a click I could look around a place before renting it for a planned vacation.