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Just because some people dismissed the internet as a fad doesn't mean that everything that is dismissed as a fad is going to be the next internet.
by resoluteteeth 5y ago
Just because some people dismissed the internet as a fad doesn't mean that everything that is dismissed as a fad is going to be the next internet.
- paulgb 5y agoAgreed, but I also think a big factor is that the things that make metaverse distinct from what we already have with VR are (to the best of my knowledge) entirely hypothetical. As I understand it, and by the definition in the article, the core of the metaverse as a decentralized system implies that I'll be able to run a metaverse server that anyone can connect to from a client. Since “nobody owns the metaverse”, I suppose this would be a client that uses some sort of open standard (like HTML) rather than any one company's proprietary client. Is anyone actually building towards that description of the metaverse? The biggest players (like Facebook) seem to be pursuing a vision where there might be some decentralization from the network but the client is still proprietary and owned by them.
- withinboredom 5y agoThere was VRML with some amazing worlds to explore. I imagine they’d probably start with that and extend it (creating an elevator in VRML was excruciating).