Different events are constantly taking place in the metaverse: business meetings, large concerts, fashion week, and even ordinary meetings on work tasks. Today, specialized agencies for events in virtual reality are already organizing these events. They employ developers, event organizers, and VR artists. Together they create events of different scales on meta sites.
Even now, the events are not without problems. Some organizers have interruptions with the Internet, due to which the broadcast is interrupted; someone incorrectly prepared some files and forgot that he is now performing. And if at an event in ordinary life, the organizer can easily “take out” these troubles on his charisma, then this will obviously not work in virtual reality. Users will simply leave the event and disconnect from the metaverse.
Therefore, it is imperative to consider not only all organizational issues but also take care of the technical details. This is precisely what the organizer of events in the metaverse will do.
Event manager skills
In general, vacancies in the metaverse appear every day. Professions themselves develop from familiar to everyone into virtual ones. Therefore, people with knowledge and skills in areas related to IT easily find suitable job offers in the metaverse. For example, the ideal candidate for a virtual event manager is a programmer with the skills to organize a holiday. He can quickly think through all the event details, organize the work of other specialists, and personally monitor how it works at the code level to avoid technical errors.
But there are a few more important skills for an event manager in the metaverse:
- be able to organize and control the work of people and technologies;
- easily cope with force majeure and quickly be able to correct organizational and technical problems;
- understand the specifics of significant events and understand how to organize a business conference, a party, or a performance by a star artist;
- not be afraid to perform on the big stage to replace the speaker in case of force majeure;
- understand the work of a VR artist, programmer, and other subordinates.
Now, something similar to the organizer of virtual events can be found in online universities. Together with the speaker of the event, an invisible technical specialist or manager is always present at the lesson. It is responsible for the quality of video and sound and helps the teacher interact with students.
What are the prospects for the profession?
The creation of one not very large event already costs about 800 thousand rubles. And this is the minimum price tag that virtual event experts are talking about. These costs are justified because usually, events in virtual reality are not limited by the number of visitors and time, which allows you to earn several million on one such event.
The salary of novice managers now starts from 40 thousand rubles for one project. Thanks to project work, an event manager can “regulate” his income depending on the number of projects and his employment.
The profession of an event manager involves, first of all, the development of one’s own skills. If you are just starting your journey, you can quickly get a job as an organizer’s assistant and learn the basics of organization using the example of his work.
Then you can immerse yourself in related areas (VR art, programming) to better understand the tasks of subordinates and solve technical problems promptly.
