Foreign Students' Job Seeking: Future High paying Jobs in the "Metauniverse"

The Internet boom in the United States since the mid-1990s, when the telephone line dial-up Internet access was very slow, mainly text messages. After 2000, it was dominated by text and picture information, after 2006, it was dominated by pictures and videos, and after 2010, 3D virtual space games appeared.

With the development of network transmission bandwidth infrastructure, many industry application barriers have been solved. The fierce competition makes creativity ahead of the development of physical infrastructure.

The advent of the iphone in 2009 and the subsequent popularity of smartphones have really accelerated our application efficiency and convenience. The popularity and improvement of 5G will further eliminate the bandwidth restrictions.

Now, with the development of VR head display devices and chips, we have initially experienced the imagination space brought by the virtual world.

Can you imagine that in the 1990s, people could understand the current work related to digital marketing and virtual community management? No one can imagine that the Internet will create so many high-income employment opportunities.

Over the past 20 years, there have been many new technologies and jobs related to the Internet, which have affected the human development of the whole planet. Those who ridiculed and despised the Internet in the early past have been eliminated by the times.

My judgment is that the meta universe is a relatively advanced stage in the evolution of the Internet, that is, the iterative development and innovation of the major revision. Its coverage will be deeper, more advanced and faster than that of the Internet.

At first, the technology giants we see today were not recognized or even laughed at.

New things, new thinking and new world are all young people who are brave to try.

Now major brands and large technology enterprises have been seeking to create an immersive environment where people can work and play.

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According to Reuters, Meta began testing its remote work application Horizon Workrooms in August. People use the company's VR head display device, Oculus Quest 2, to hold meetings online in virtual conference rooms. The company plans to use the meta universe to recruit talents. Hyundai and other companies in South Korea are already using the virtual world application Zepeto to conduct induction training for new employees. Microsoft, Nvidia, Samsung, Adidas, Nike, China Mobile, Tencent, ByteDance and other giant companies are already in action.

So far, the easiest entry point to the meta universe is mainly through entertainment and games. Last year, Travis Scott, a virtual concert, let players see the original virtual world for the first time. More than 12 million people attended the concert, which is considered the best example of the application of meta universe scenes.

In fact, many years ago, soldiers, doctors, astronauts and other professions have used VR for training, and VR has expanded to a wider range of uses. The meta universe may help people organize our work in a more efficient way.

Next, what opportunities and occupations will be waiting for us in the new world of the meta universe? For example, the following job opportunities:

1. Metacosmic research experts

Nowadays, researchers in the AR and VR industries can be seen everywhere in the laboratories of the world's top universities and top technology companies. Their work is to build something similar to "basic theory", that is, to build a basic theoretical framework of mathematics and physics for the entire "digital world".

2. Metacosmic Planner

To create a viable meta universe, for most companies, the ability to plan and implement various functions in a completely virtual world will become the key to success in the future. In the rapidly changing digital era, how to make the right choice, step on the most appropriate track, and formulate long-term strategies for business innovation and revenue growth, planners need to implement every step from concept verification, pilot to comprehensive deployment.

This means that they need to identify market opportunities, build business cases, improve project roadmaps, develop key indicators, etc. This requires years of management experience, understanding of software and hardware, SaaS/PaaS marketing business model, and most importantly, good entrepreneurial thinking.

3. Metacosmic Ecological Developer

Similar to the project leader of government public relations, the ecological developers of the metauniverse need to build a complete ecosystem around the metauniverse: sensors, CPUs, GPUs, KYC processes, data lakes, green power production, edge computing, laws and regulations, etc. They will be responsible for coordinating and connecting various resources between the company and the government, promoting government investment in infrastructure, and ensuring that various functions can be realized on a large scale.

For example, we might compare this with the difficulties faced by the popularization of new energy vehicles. Although the new energy vehicle products have been launched, the biggest obstacle to the widespread promotion is the lack of charging facilities in cities. The large-scale application of the universe will inevitably require the assistance of more urban infrastructure.

In addition, they need to lobby major financial institutions to support distributed ledger technology and smart contracts so that people can exchange goods and services in the meta universe.

4. Safety Design Manager of Yuanuniverse

For the most important privacy issues, identity authentication, sensors, etc., someone needs to provide guidance and supervision in the process of device design, verification and mass production to ensure that the digital world is secure enough to meet applicable regulatory security requirements, rather than sacrificing the most advanced functions or designs.

Designers need to accurately predict how various functions in the meta universe should be used correctly, prevent misuse and abuse, and identify the key components, systems, and manufacturing steps associated with them.

5. Product Manager of Yuanuniverse

According to the growth of users of the meta universe platform and the expected demand for products and content, more product managers will be needed to enhance the user experience, test and solve the problems in new products, and work with development engineers, designers and product experts to promote iterative product development.

For example, of the approximately 3200 positions posted on Meta's career page, nearly 2400 are for various types of product managers.

6. Metacosmic Hardware Engineer

Creating a digital world interwoven with the real world requires various expensive and complex hardware. The hardware engineers of the Metauniverse need to assemble and debug this complex and huge hardware system.

7. XR/AR/MR Software Engineer

In the next 10 years, software engineers with AR/VR will be required to develop the next computing platform, software and applications for the virtual world. At present, the annual salary of AR and VR software engineers in major technology companies in the United States ranges from $135000 to $150000.

8. Content Planning of the Metauniverse

With the continuous development of experience economy and game concept, people have higher and higher requirements for expanding real experience. People want to experience stories in the virtual world more deeply and immersively. People not only want to experience various situations and ups and downs of life, but also want to have strange and special experiences. Metauniverse content planners are similar to story writers of movies and games, and design immersive stories for users.

9. Yuan Cosmos Marketing Expert

Metauniverse marketing experts are responsible for designing, creating and implementing immersive interactive advertising activities or experiences, blurring the boundaries between entities and numbers, and attracting users in the Z era.

10. Yuan Universe Creative Artist

After building the basic structure and hardware equipment of the meta universe, we also need to create this world from scratch, which needs to be forward-looking and guiding, because the builders of the meta universe need to create many things beyond reality, and they also need to consider rules and ethical issues.

11. Cyberspace security expert

The universe is the perfect target for network attacks and frauds. There are innumerable possibilities of errors in the avatars that have been hacked, the biological data of users that have been leaked, and the wearable devices that have been hacked. Cyberspace security experts are responsible for intercepting malicious attacks in real time to ensure that all laws and protection agreements of the Metauniverse take effect.

12. Entertainment game designer

As the creative force behind game development, game designers in the meta universe will be responsible for designing, prototyping and building a fully immersive 3D game experience, attracting players in an unprecedented way.

13. Director of Yuancosmic Activities

The director of the meta universe activities is fully responsible for managing, organizing and guiding a project from beginning to end in the meta universe, and needs to attach importance to interpersonal and organizational skills.

14. Smart contract lawyer

Transactions in the meta universe are conducted using codes and algorithms, so a new legal structure needs to be created outside the standard legal framework. This position needs to understand the operation of laws, agreements and blockchain technologies.

15. Digital Fashion Designer

Digital fashion designers need to develop unique clothing accessories for users' virtual images, and they need to have animation production ability and understanding of fashion and art. With the popularity of NFT in fashion and art, this industry has been accelerating its development. The online virtual world and social networking site IMVU held its first fashion show last year.

16. Asset Advisor

Similar to the financial advisers in the real world, they are mainly responsible for understanding the pulse of the market and helping their clients transfer their investments accordingly. With the surge of NFT, there will be a great demand for the future meta universe asset advisers to help users purchase assets and make investments.

The above is just a preliminary judgment of the Meta Universe occupation. Perhaps in the future, with the continuous development and evolution, we will derive occupations and posts that we can not imagine, such as today's online celebrity and We Media.