The virtual world and the real world will become one and the human body will merge with fashion and architecture, according to speakers at Dezeen Club's metaverse meet-up event held at a virtual rooftop bar earlier this week.
"The virtual world and the real world will integrate," said Amber Slooten of virtual fashion studio The Fabricant.
"There will be like a virtual layer on top of reality that you'll be able to switch on and off," she added. "And there will be virtual worlds that you can go into."
The Dezeen Club event saw speakers address an audience of avatars (above) at a virtual rooftop bar (top)
"It's already beginning to happen where architecture, fashion and the body sort of becomes one,"said Fredrik Hellberg of architecture studio Space Popular. He added that virtual worlds will allow people to "control or actually extend your body into architecture".
Slooten and Hellberg were among speakers at Dezeen Club's metaverse meet-up on Wednesday, which also included Charlotte Taylor and Andrés Reisinger.
Dezeen Club guests could choose from a limited range of simple avatars
Held at a virtual rooftop bar created in spatial video-chat platform Gather.Town, the event was attended by over 200 invited guests who moved around the venue with digital avatars and took part in video chats with other attendees.
A panel discussion at the event saw leading figures from digital design discussing the metaverse ? a term used to describ...