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The Metaverse sounds like a protocol for VR/AR worlds, but I don’t think I read there is any consortium working on such an open protocol. Unless such a protocol
by prox 5y ago
The Metaverse sounds like a protocol for VR/AR worlds, but I don’t think I read there is any consortium working on such an open protocol. Unless such a protocol already exists?
- teraflop 5y agoLack of openness is a feature, not a bug.
- prox 5y agoYou mean for the companies working on metaverses?
- eganist 5y agoThis reminds me of Adobe Atmosphere (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Atmosphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Atmosphere), which I greatly miss. It was a highlight of my early 2000s.
- one_off_comment 5y agoI remember that! I loved using an avatar that looked like a bush and then hiding in plain sight.
- thinkmassive 5y agoIt was called VRML[0] and was superseded by X3D[1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D
- prox 5y agoThe article mentions a (discontinued) 3d browser, which would be a necessity probably for any type of metaversial web.