An unpopular new profession in the metaverse
The metaverse has garnered a lot of attention in the past two years. As a new thing, the metaverse has brought new opportunities, and naturally created some new jobs. Earlier, 01 Blockchain wrote “New Careers Brought by the Metaverse”, which included metaverse research experts, metaverse event planners, metaverse ecosystem developers, metaverse hardware engineers, metaverse storytellers, metaverse world builders, and metaverse cybersecurity experts. The above can be said to be relatively popular occupations. However, in reality, there are also some unpopular occupations in the metaverse, including metaverse face-pinchers,Metaverse land intermediaries, metaverse architects, metaverse fashion designers, and metaverse ad blocking experts. These unpopular occupations aren't well known, but there are probably plenty of career opportunities for them.
Metaverse face-pincher
One of the most important elements in the metaverse is the Avatar (Avatar). Each avatar can be the same or unique, depending on the user's choices. For example, currently Roblox has launched its own avatar for users to choose freely. However, as more people participate in the metaverse, the demand for virtual images will also increase. Naturally, the demand for unique avatars will increase.
Everyone wants to be unique to get more attention. This has inspired people to pursue unique and good-looking virtual images. As a result, the job of a virtual face-pincher was created.
In fact, many game development requires the participation of game character design positions. Since there are certain techniques to shape character images, such as some good-looking character templates, which require professional processing, and users generally cannot operate them, the profession of face-pincher was born. With the popularity of the metaverse, face-pinching is no longer limited to games; it has begun to appear in metaverse social networking and other aspects. Because in the metaverse world, character images are very important and relate to a person's personality and identity. For example, in the metaverse social networking platform Soul, there are quite a few professional or part-time metaverse face-pinching services for metaverse social platforms.
The metaverse virtual face pincher is not particularly different in how it works; in fact, the metaverse is more of a conceptual endowment, making it more special and trendy. However, it is foreseeable that the career of metaverse virtual face pincher will definitely differentiate in the future, because metaverse face-pinching is more biased towards trendy ideas in terms of design style (relatively traditional in games), and there are certain prospects and independent development routes in the future.
Metaverse land brokerage
Virtual real estate/virtual land is one of the most important components of the metaverse. Many platforms are known for their exorbitant virtual land auction prices, such as Decentraland and Sandbox. The popularity of virtual land has also prompted many people to scramble to enter this market, or hope to become “neighbors” with celebrities (a group of domestic and foreign stars such as Lin Junjie and Snoopdogg bought valuable land on some overseas metaverse real estate platforms). However, land resources are limited. If you want to buy land, you can only buy it with landlords. This has created a metaverse land intermediary position.
Metaverse land intermediaries act as a bridge to help connect buyers and sellers. Everyone can participate in the metaverse, including people of different languages, races, and cultures. For example, if a domestic buyer wants to buy a virtual land, he can't speak English, then metaverse land intermediaries can play a role. He can negotiate with the seller on behalf of the buyer and get a desired price, then he can facilitate the transaction. Or there are people who want to “invest” in virtual real estate but don't know how to find or find a good target, then metaverse land intermediaries can also play a role by recommending land based on their own experience, helping buyers find cost-effective and suitable properties for investment, and serving some less experienced investors.
Metaverse Architects
When it comes to moving bricks, many people think it's a hard job that requires a lot of hard work. But have you thought about moving bricks in the metaverse? Being a metaverse architect is probably one of the most unpopular jobs in the metaverse.
Virtual real estate/virtual land is one of the most important components of the metaverse. Many metaverse platforms, such as Decentraland, Sandbox, etc., actually use land for many activities. And when they buy land, many people will want to build their dream home on it. However, not everyone has time to build their own home and entrust others to help build their own buildings; this demand has led to the birth of the metaverse architect position.
In fact, metaverse architects not only provide design plans, but also provide the layout and design of virtual items such as furniture, including furniture, overall house design, and interior design.
In fact, today there are companies at home and abroad that specialize in providing metaverse construction services. For example, foreign representatives include Voxel Architects; domestic representatives include MetaEstate.
The Cryptovoxels platform (Cryptovoxels platform) is a virtual world/metaverse, powered by the Ethereum blockchain. (Players can buy land and build stores and art galleries to display NFTs), the most visited buildings in Origin City (an important city on the platform), Spaceage, Glassage, and Welcome are all from Voxel Architects. MetaEstate has built many exquisite venues on the CryptoVoxels platform, such as Genki Starry Sky Metachi HQ, Creation Fashion Hall, and Haolin Hotel.
Voxel Architects homepage
Voxel Architects' employees can also be called metaverse world builders. They mainly create virtual buildings according to customer requirements, which will further accelerate the construction and development of the entire metaverse world.
In addition to architecture, metaverse architects will also expand into other fields, such as digital collection platforms. Some metaverse architects will design related 3D real estate digital products, etc. for digital collection platforms. This career has been relatively heavily influenced by virtual real estate. If the virtual real estate market is hot, the demand for this job will naturally be high, leading to a blowout.
Metaverse fashion designer
Metaverse fashion designers, as the name suggests, work on designing virtual clothes, purses, and other items. Currently, domestic platforms, such as Byte's Silence and Xiaohongshu, are recruiting relevant practitioners, and demand is growing. As metaverse fashion designers, we can design ingenious virtual works on these platforms.
Unlike the traditional design industry, the quality requirements for fashion design works in the metaverse will be higher, because the metaverse itself represents a kind of fashion and trend. Therefore, in metaverse fashion design, it is necessary to highlight elements such as fashion and trend in the design concept, and sometimes it is necessary to add some different elements, which is more difficult than traditional industries.
Unlike the traditional design industry, metaverse fashion design mainly designs 3D virtual fashion objects. The construction period, process, and requirements are different from the traditional industry. Additionally, some metaverse platforms also need to review products designed by metaverse fashion designers. At present, some domestic companies have begun to develop digital platforms or activities related to fashion.
In the metaverse fashion designer career, more ideas are needed, which is different from the traditional fashion design industry.
Metaverse ad blocking expert
Today, most major internet companies rely on advertising to make money, such as Meta, Google, etc. And the metaverse is likely to operate in a similar way in the future. Internet companies rely on personalized advertising to increase advertising revenue, which to some extent infringes on personal privacy. In the metaverse, advertisers and media can make full use of big data to follow you to the end of the metaverse world (that is, collecting your data all the time to improve the quality of your personalized ads).
Imagine you're walking in a virtual space, and in the real world, you're hungry, so unwittingly, you've taken a look at the cafes and restaurants on both sides of the street. After a minute, advertisements for all kinds of food began to pour into your eyes. This may sound interesting, but in the long run it is an invasion of users' personal privacy. Some people, on the other hand, pay great attention to privacy and want ad blocking methods to prevent manufacturers from continuing to insert ads. This is where ad blocking experts come into play.
This career is actually a bit like the AdBlock Plus model. Metaverse ad blocking experts will develop plug-ins that can block ads from popping up. Although they can't get paid much, metaverse ad blocking experts may be able to make a living by collecting donations and obtaining massive amounts of data.
