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Megaverse is such a great new buzz word. Love it

by shoto_io 5y ago

thatjoeoverthr 5y ago
I think it’s from Sailor Moon.
- spiritplumber 5y ago
  That's Negaverse :)
  - jcims 5y ago
    I thought that was Twitter
    - bottled_poe 5y ago
      mainly amongst the red-pillers.
      - throwaway316943 5y ago
        You mean black pillers?
        bottled_poe 5y ago
        Sure, that too
- vbsteven 5y ago
  Also very similar to Metaverse from Snow Crash.
  - indigochill 5y ago
    Speaking of which, I'm already sick of hearing Tim Sweeney call Fortnite "a metaverse" just because it's a cross-platform game. To me, metaverse (drawing from Snow Crash) means essentially "the WWW in 3D" which somehow we still don't have despite commercial approaches to that space such as Second Life and Roblox. The closest thing I know of is probably Croquet (the original project from Alan Kay and co, less so the commercial venture although I'm watching that with some interest as well) and its various spin-offs like Open Cobalt: virtual spaces hosted independently but with the capability to link to each other to compose a larger distributed virtual space, just like the world wide web.
    - jimmySixDOF 5y ago
      >"the WWW in 3D" so like WebXR (& WebGPU is moving ahead too) a good example of whats possible is Vartiste [1], a 3D paint editor tool running in a normal browser on Pancake PC's or in any VR HMD [1] https://zach-geek.itch.io/vartiste https://zach-geek.itch.io/vartiste
      - indigochill 5y ago
        I've poked around casually at the WebXR docs, but the main killer feature for me with Croquet et al was portals which would display the goings-on in a linked remote server in real time (you could even embed the full remote environment inside the local environment, sort of like the 3D equivalent of an iFrame). I guess WebXR's responsibility is the interface between XR and the web, and someone else would need to take on the synchronization task to achieve that.
  - saddington 5y ago
    i'm working on a federation system for metaverse. yen.chat is an example.
alex_petrenko 5y ago
"Mega" just stands for 10^6 here, the simulation throughput :)

Megaverse is such a great new buzz word. Love it

thatjoeoverthr 5y ago

I think it’s from Sailor Moon.

spiritplumber 5y ago
That's Negaverse :)
- jcims 5y ago
  I thought that was Twitter
  - bottled_poe 5y ago
    mainly amongst the red-pillers.
    - throwaway316943 5y ago
      You mean black pillers?
      - bottled_poe 5y ago
        Sure, that too
vbsteven 5y ago
Also very similar to Metaverse from Snow Crash.
- indigochill 5y ago
  Speaking of which, I'm already sick of hearing Tim Sweeney call Fortnite "a metaverse" just because it's a cross-platform game. To me, metaverse (drawing from Snow Crash) means essentially "the WWW in 3D" which somehow we still don't have despite commercial approaches to that space such as Second Life and Roblox. The closest thing I know of is probably Croquet (the original project from Alan Kay and co, less so the commercial venture although I'm watching that with some interest as well) and its various spin-offs like Open Cobalt: virtual spaces hosted independently but with the capability to link to each other to compose a larger distributed virtual space, just like the world wide web.
  - jimmySixDOF 5y ago
    >"the WWW in 3D" so like WebXR (& WebGPU is moving ahead too) a good example of whats possible is Vartiste [1], a 3D paint editor tool running in a normal browser on Pancake PC's or in any VR HMD [1] https://zach-geek.itch.io/vartiste https://zach-geek.itch.io/vartiste
    - indigochill 5y ago
      I've poked around casually at the WebXR docs, but the main killer feature for me with Croquet et al was portals which would display the goings-on in a linked remote server in real time (you could even embed the full remote environment inside the local environment, sort of like the 3D equivalent of an iFrame). I guess WebXR's responsibility is the interface between XR and the web, and someone else would need to take on the synchronization task to achieve that.
- saddington 5y ago
  i'm working on a federation system for metaverse. yen.chat is an example.

alex_petrenko 5y ago

"Mega" just stands for 10^6 here, the simulation throughput :)