Head of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, reportedly believed that the vision of a VR/AR world that comes with a blockchain, crypto-enabled internal market could come to life. 

Specifically, Huang – among the most powerful individuals across the tech sector – reportedly claimed that the vision of a metaverse, a term for a series of interlinked, persistent virtual worlds with self-contained economies, operated using blockchain and NFTs, is achievable. 

His remarks were delivered at the virtual Computex conference, sharing the industry is “on the cusp of” the metaverse, with optimism in its capability, with a vision that in the long haul, users will utilize the metaverse to “simulate the future.”

Huang reportedly explained that AR versions will be available, and the favourite pieces of art will be digitalised, and can be owned via NFTs. The “one of a kind, completely digital art” can be put on display, viewable using glasses or mobile phones. 

“You can see that it’s sitting right there, perfectly lit, and it belongs to you. We’ll see this overlay, a metaverse overlay if you will, into our physical world”

He additionally revealed that Nvidia has already been utilizing a VR version for its new office – currently functioning as a test facility for these theories – at a campus he referred to as “Voyager”. 

Among the top global GPUs manufacturing firms, Nvidia reportedly employed supercomputers for the simulation of architecture for Voyager, assisting with design and ecological efficiency. 

The company reportedly aims to achieve the ultimate goal of having the staff come to work by putting on VR headsets from home, and controlling robots to move about the physical office. 

“This building completely exists in VR. We designed it completely digitally. We’re going to build it out so that there will be a digital twin of this very physical building in VR. We’ll be able to simulate everything, and train our robots in it. We can simulate how best to distribute the air conditioning to reduce the energy consumption […] We can simulate all of that in our digital twin, our building metaverse, before we deploy anything here in the physical world. We’ll be able to go in and out of it using VR and AR.”