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Siggraph Spotlight: Tim Sweeney and the Metaverse [audio]
- ArtWomb 7y agoFinding Tim Sweeney's voice really soothing. Alan Watts meets Spock. Get the sense you could throw out any topic. "QC" "Mars" "Dark Matter" "Crispr" "The Dynamics of an Asteroid". And the answer would be perfectly lucid and on-the-money. One possible inspiration for a universal metaverse protocol is video itself. Every node is essentially a Stadia edge server. Live streams would then interact with each other using scene understanding.
- erikpukinskis 7y agoMy intuition is that the games industry will be closest to creating the metaverse, but will ultimately fail. I think the cultural expectation of realistic graphics will ultimately be a boondoggle. Painters showed a long time ago that realism doesn’t really “get you there”. I think a single rogue artist will create it, not using any industrial tools at all. Existing tools have too much baggage, everything will have to be as light as possible, which means from scratch and half built. Each piece will barely function.