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6.29.2022

Egypt: a young teenager creates a metaverse with his mother’s old clothes

At only 13 years old, Omar Wael has realized an ambitious idea directly inspired by a Spielberg movie: create his own virtual world.

Omar Wael has had a passion for technology and artificial intelligence since he was very young. At the age of 9, he first developed his first robot. Subsequently, the release of Spielberg’s Ready Player One in 2018 launched him on a new creation, and not the least. Indeed, the feature film features a fiction in which most of humanity lives in a virtual reality simulation. From then on, Omar Wael immediately set out to create his own metaverse, for useful and sustainable purposes.

His mother’s old clothes

By recycling the clothes his mother no longer wore, Omar developed a sensory jacket and glove. These clothes come to life in software that the young teenager is still working on. In the future, they should allow students like him to take online classes in the heart of his metaverse. The boy’s plans have come to fruition thanks to the increase in investment in the sector as well as the development of many technology startups in the country. Omar has thus been able to benefit not only from increasingly accessible knowledge but also from support to carry out his metavers.

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A social and sustainable project

Omar has real and committed motivations. He wishes to highlight the sustainable advantage of metavers. In his words, accessing school in virtual reality would reduce traffic and increase the chances of accessing education, just as simulating chemical experiments in the metaverse reduces the economic and ecological costs of testing.

The young Egyptian has already won various local and international awards for his project called “The Other World”. His success has allowed him to obtain many awards to encourage his great talent and great ideas.

Published on 29 June 2022

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