HTC’s new video shows off what it sees as a typical day in the metaverse

HTC video reveals the future of the metaverse that it calls Viverse

To promote the Viverse, HTC has released a video called Viverse-A Day in the Metaverse with VR, AR, AI, 5G & NFTs.” The  three-minute clip starts innocently enough with a woman on a treadmill seemingly at a gym. A screen in front of the woman monitors her blood pressure, the length of time that she was walking for, and the distance covered. You’ll notice that she is wearing a fashionable pair of glasses that are most likely  smart glasses.

Later, at home, she taps her glasses, and thanks to VR she converts her home into a Starbucks-like coffee shop and is reminded that she is supposed to virtually attend a quarterly meeting being held in VR. Later, she receives a virtual invitation to a wine tasting party which she accepts. She accepts another invite to meet up with Nathan to attend a rap concert and joins her grandmother at a virtual Cat Art museum.

At the museum, the granddaughter purchases a gift for her grandmother, an NFT of a cat painting called Meowna Lisa. An NFT, or Non-fungible token, is a digital asset that represents a real-world object. They are bought and traded and sometimes big money is involved.

For a company drowning in red ink, HTC is quite ambitious

HTC wraps things up by writing, “Explore a new dimension of immersive experiences like the ‘Step into Cat Art’ online museum. Technologies like VR, AR, AI, 5G, and blockchain are your links to this new reality. We call this reality VIVERSE.”

This is quite ambitious for a company that lost its mojo in the smartphone world. If Vive hadn’t become a success for HTC, the company probably wouldn’t be around. But there are still consumers who remember phones like the One (M8) and are willing to give the company one more chance to deliver a real flagship phone will rel flagship specs. Let’s hope this time HTC gets it right.