Inside The Metaverse

With the rapid development of information technology, the world is experiencing a new Big Bang. The result of the first one was the creation of the physical world. The second brings the virtual worlds that will affect and replace many areas of human work in the near future. The author of the documentary focuses on the online virtual worlds of computer games, such as Second Life or World of Warcraft, and pictures the wide spectrum of people who come into contact with them, whether as creators, users or those who have managed to convert their passion for virtual reality into money. It is possible to connect to online games anywhere in the world; therefore they offer a huge communication area, wiping out cultural and language barriers between people. They can help to broaden one's social circle but often at the expense of diversity, since the user tends to communicate only with a similarly oriented group of people. At the same time it represents a new form of self-expression, surprisingly open disclosures of the human personality. The documentary, through excerpts from several games, shows how the creators try to surpass our reality and create worlds which the users can then inhabit with their avatars. The virtual worlds are becoming a reflection of our everyday reality, but they represent its idealized and distorted version. (Academia Film Olomouc)