A pattern we see in many industries is that technology changes alongside culture and society, and this remains true for entertainment. The most obvious to consumers has been the shift from terrestrial television to streaming services like Netflix and Amazon. The greater flexibility allowed consumers to decouple themselves from an entertainment schedule, being dictated by broadcast times. OTT platforms are aligned with the changing patterns of casualized work and study that focus on individual freedom. The expansion of these services also took place at a time when personal digital devices were becoming a norm and allowed for media consumption to be more private and personal.

As we move beyond the legacy media of TV, film, and music, other developments are taking place in the areas of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and virtual metaverses. By taking advantage of these technological leaps, the creators of Sensorium Galaxy have brought to market an inhabited metaverse that uses cutting-edge technology to power its AI-driven avatars and brings the idea of an immortal virtual being into the realm of possibility.

VR More Than Reinventing The Wheel

While other developments in tech have been continuations of older formats, like streaming services selling a very similar product to television, one of the areas that could be considered truly new is virtual reality.

Since taking off in the 2020s, developers and artists began to get to grips with the technology and how it could be used. Most early VR projects were ports of other media like video games or smaller experimental games.

Sensorium is the first metaverse built with virtual reality as one of its foundations. The issue with early VR platforms was that they couldn’t represent a world that felt real, they were low-resolution and cartoonish. Despite the technical limitations acknowledged by Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg in this regard, Sensorium managed to implement photorealistic graphics to immerse the user in their new world.