Maybe the metaverse will not be as we imagine it

He is a footballer who has the head of a golden retriever, wears the number 4 shirt and is the new idol of Boca Juniors. His name is Cachorrão and two weeks ago he was a trend on the social network X (formerly Twitter). Because? A video clip showed him taking a corner so badly that the ball was thrown back, causing ridicule from the crowd. It was the first leg for the quarterfinals of the Roblox Cup and Boca received its classic rival at La Bombonera. River won 2 to 1, but I still didn’t understand why the networks were so interested in Cachorrão.

Beyond the ‘blooper, it turns out that the Brazilian was a Gremio player, a team eliminated in the round of 16 by River itself. Being a free player, he was called by the Xeneize team as reinforcement, but in the midst of great controversy.

????THE PUPPY IS SAVED!
O Superman started the bandits to run and now he’s going to play with Boca ????????
SUPERMEN IS NEW REINFORCEMENT FOR BOCA JUNIORS! pic.twitter.com/fBWlEjekSi

— Roblox Cup ???? (@Copa_Roblox) September 16, 2023

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I know this may all sound crazy to you, but this is how it happened. Let’s keep going.

In addition to being a victim of memes, Cachorrão was threatened with a “weapon” by a River fan, he was seen dancing in clubs days prior to the second leg, and until He was hit by the millionaire painting’s bus moments

❗️ ROBLOX LIBERATORS: THEY THREATENED PUPPY

In the run-up to the rematch between Boca and River…https://t.co/u8KIKDkvJe

— Diario Olé (@DiarioOle) September 19, 2023

Although the star of the second leg was Leobigol, who scored a hat trick, the glory went to Cachorrão. The overall score was tied and the decision was decided by penalties.

The game ended with a fight and even the fans got onto the field. In the end, Boca Juniors advanced and will face each other in semi-finals to Corinthians. In the semi-finals of the Roblox Cup.

If you’ve never heard of Roblox, don’t worry. But it is very likely that, if you have children or teenagers at home, they not only know what he is, but

which has a very important feature: it allows users to create their own worlds, their own games, and then share them with others.

In appearance, that makes it very similar to Minecraft, but with the difference that, not only in appearance but in its logic and the interaction mechanics they use.

In this way, the platform becomes a tool that allows children who want to create their own video games to become familiar with programming notions.

The whole story I told you at the beginning about Cachorrão and the matches are part of a video game created by Brazilian developer Santos Masinha. Until a couple of weeks ago, the competition was called the Roblox Copa Libertadores, but because of all the commotion and attention it began to receive -especially from the traditional media-,

16 teams have participated in this Cup and each member of each squad is controlled by a particular user. And the fans in the stands? Each one is a user. That is, Roblox is a metaverse…

Foreign media, such as “Olé” (Argentina) or CNN Brazil, as well as some local media, have dedicated articles to this competition, especially due to the interest aroused among people. The matches are broadcast on Twitch and YouTube. On the first platform, the Boca-River matches reached 42,032 views in the first leg and 176,024 views in the return match.

But not only that. The official account of the competition on the social network

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While we are still trying to guess how TikTok’s algorithm works to achieve growth in the number of users and views organically, there are other spaces – like Roblox – that are still off the radar of the general public. Besides,

However, the freedom of game creation and the ability for each user to have a unique experience is shaping what virtual reality and the metaverse will really (or at least now) look like. If we think that our avatars will be caricatures, like the ones Mark Zuckerberg showed a few years ago, why not consider that they will have cubic bodies and the head or face of whatever we like or represent us the most. Like a golden retriever named Cachorrão.

Source: Elcomercio

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