On the occasion of the ARwards of the metaverse of OVER la Realtà, we have created together with Elle_IZED a first wearable digital-twin!! In practice, the same garment has been customized both in reality and digitally to allow you to maintain your personality even in the metaverse!!
From today it is therefore possible to have made (here) a customized denim garment by Elle_IZED with a hand-painted artwork; and simultaneously receive the corresponding digital asset for the OVER and Decentraland metaverses (or others if requested)!!
But let's delve into what the implications of this activity are.
The metaverse is often promoted today as a place where you can be whoever you want, but is it really so? Does it have to be that way? Certainly not!
Let's organize some concepts:
What is a digital twin?
A digital twin is a digital replica of a real object. It can be used in various ways depending on our needs. For example, we could use it to analyze an assembly line before building it, or as in this case, to digitize a distinctive feature such as a logo or a garment.
But why would I want a digital twin that represents me?
On the desire to be oneself on social media or in digital worlds, endless discussions can arise. In our opinion, it is important that at least the person has the option to choose, whether in one direction or the other!
Until now, it has been easy to be someone else online, rather than yourself, but will it still be like that? The intensive use of wallet for example, it could create a sort of completely transparent containers in which every aspect of our life would pass with the pros and cons that this entails.
Certainly, tools must be developed to better manage this information, but the point remains that in a web3 metaverse it could paradoxically be very easy to change our appearance, but more difficult to hide what truly identifies us. In this sense, what identifies us is not our first and last name, but our actions!
A little anecdote to conclude: in The Lord of the Rings, in the language of the Ents, the name of the creatures was the sum of all the experiences they had lived. Our wallets could therefore become a bit like our name in Entish!