The many definitions of Metaverse
AND WHY IT'S NOT THERE YET.
Dragoș Silion - ColorfulCoding & Cofounder Artlink
Public perception
Escaping 2D
The metaverse
and how it will revolutionize everything
- Matthew Ball
Snow Crash
- Neil Stephenson, 1992
a persistent virtual world that reached, interacted with, and affected nearly every part of human existence.
It was a place for labor and leisure, for self-actualization as well as physical exhaustion, for art alongside commerce.
At any given time, there were roughly 15 million human-
controlled avatars on “The Street,” which Stephenson called “the Broadway, the
Champs Elysees of the Metaverse,”
but stretched across the entirety of a virtual
planet more than two and a half times the size of the earth.
At any given time, there were roughly 15 million human-
controlled avatars on “The Street,” which Stephenson called “the Broadway, the Champs Elysees of the Metaverse,”
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“A massively scaled and interoperable network of real-time rendered 3D virtual worlds that can be experienced synchronously and persistently by an effectively unlimited number of users with an individual sense of presence, and with continuity of data, such as identity, history, entitlements, objects, communications, and payments.”
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Bandwith
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Latency - the more immersed, the more disturbing latency is
Networking
500,000,000 sqm map
2 trillion uniquely rendered trees
1.5 billion buildings
Roblox 30-50 MB / hour
vs Fortnite's 100-300MB/hour
Computing
Roblox <200 CCU in lower-fidelity worlds.
MEtaverse as ENGINES
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Unity & Unreal - cost money, privately owned and closed systems. Not accessible to everyone.
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Platforms (Second Life, Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite Creative, Altspace VR, Horizon Worlds) - More accessible, More closed
Interoperability
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JPEG and MP3
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3D assets : FBX (owned by Autodesk), GLTF ("JPEG of 3D")
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3D Scenes with behaviours: ??
...and many more
Ethics
Corporate & VR
Huge funding, lower returns.
But..driving hardware investments
What they mean:
Multiplayer social VR
- Altspace VR (Microsoft)
- Bigscreen VR
- RecRoom (Microsoft)
- Horizon Worlds (Facebook)
- VRChat
Social VR is better than zooming
Web3
Money first, Technology after
Buy land now, and we promise we'll build on it if we have the funds.
Games
The only real thing we got
The first one that worked
Second Life
Meet the Team
Successful business model. Close to our definition.
Roblox
Experimenting a lot
Fortnite
ARCloud
Researchers, Dreamers & XR
"Silent tech pushers"
Google Geospatial API
dragos@colorfulcoding.com
Stay optimistic, have fun &
keep building imperfect worlds
The many definitions of Metaverse AND WHY IT'S NOT THERE YET. Dragoș Silion - ColorfulCoding & Cofounder Artlink
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