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Let’s be clear: there is no “THE metaverse” yet. If there ever is, Facebook is unlikely to be the owner/primary facilitator of it. The article’s contents kind

Let’s be clear: there is no “THE metaverse” yet. If there ever is, Facebook is unlikely to be the owner/primary facilitator of it. The article’s contents kind of say the same thing. The name change is pure hubris. If there is eventually a metaverse, it will be an open protocol that can be run on any server. It seems unlikely that a real-world analogue of Snow Crash’s “The Street” will ever materialize though, because there is essentially no public computing space, and no plans for any. I could be wrong: Zuck might mutate into a real-world L. Bob Rife, controlling the infrastructure and using it to stealthily subvert all of humankind to his own wishes through means that slip under most people’s radars. Wait, hang on…

tata71 5y ago
> If there is eventually a metaverse, it will be an open protocol that can be run on any server. Likely an L2 on top of Ethereum network.
wahern 5y ago
> If there is eventually a metaverse, it will be an open protocol that can be run on any server. Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project P2P event architecture (among viewers) for 3D spaces hosted on your own server, and a portals system for jumping (i.e. linking) between separately hosted spaces. There's a more modern, commercial oriented incarnation of the concept at https://www.croquet.io/ https://www.croquet.io/, but I'm not sure how hosting works, or whether they preserved the portal aspect.