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Category: Making the Metaverse
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Starting at around 27:20, going into a demo of Breakroom at about 46:19, futurist and digital marketing guru Brian Solis chatted earlier today about the metaverse, virtual worlds, and related topics with Sine Wave Entertainment CEO Rohan Freeman and myself:
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I was right about to blog a good reader comment on my post about Matthew Ball's new metaverse framework for succeeding the mobile web, when news dropped about Amazon Lumberyard (previously on NWN here) which enforced its points even further: Amazon is contributing its Lumberyard game engine to open source, and it will be known as the Open 3D…
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Strategist/investor Matthew Ball has a must-read primer to a new understanding of the Metaverse which is rather mind-melting, because it compares its coming emergence to the industrialization of electricity over a century ago. From my current perspective, I see many competing platforms we casually call Metaverses (ROBLOX, Fortnite, etc), and assume that several of them…
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Click here to RSVP for a literal fireside chat with Philip Rosedale and Adam Frisby tomorrow at Noon PT inside Breakroom from Sinespace (a proud sponsoring partner to this blog), which I am thrilled to moderate. (And yes, that's Philip's classic SL avatar, updated for today with a glittering codpiece.) Event info: Since its inception…
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Hopefully I'll hear back soon from Frooxius, lead developer of the crowd-funded social VR project NeosVR, but apparently, he's figured out how to reverse engineer a version of Minecraft and import it into his world. (And apparently did so as a three day project.) My go-to VR expert Adeon speculates that Frooxius may be parsing…
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Topia is another web-based virtual world-meets-Zoom platform to put on your radar, very much in a similar space as Andy Baio's Skittish. The startup just got $5 million in funding from the VC firm of Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, and just unveiled a marketplace for world creators: World owners can now earn commissions whenever visitors…
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Tomorrow (May 29) at 11am PT is the first massive-scale community event in Scavengers, the survival/sandbox game with some Second Life in its DNA. And I do mean massive, because Scavengers runs on Improbable's Spatial OS: "We reached over 1,800 players in our closed test in April, so we're hoping to beat that," Rob Whitehead, co-founder…
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In response to my post on VRChat's impressive creative community, a Rec Room creator recently sent me this strong case for their own platform of choice, and included the videos featuring great user-created contest in Rec Room seen here. "There is amazing work and talent there, and it was all built in game. ALL of…
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Pictured: 1867 Historical Role Play, a simulation of 19th century Luxembourg built in ROBLOX Longtime readers may find this hilarious (or hilariously tedious), but you know the long-running debate about whether Second Life is a game or a virtual world platform with games in it? A variation of that debate is now taking place in…
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I don't always get my metaverse news from Vogue Magazine, but when I do, I'm not surprised IMVU is involved: “Fashion is at the epicenter of why people create avatars and connect with others on IMVU,” says Lindsay Anne Aamodt, the site’s senior director of marketing. “Part of that is because dressing up an avatar…
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