Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Minecraft
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In case you missed it, a UK company called MetaGravity is developing a Minecraft server enabling up to 100,000 concurrent players — up to 5,000 in a 100 square meter space. It's part of their effort to showcase the company's Quark engine, which uses "Causal Partitioning" to enable extremely high concurrency in virtual world. So…
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I just had a fascinating chat with Rashid Mansoor of MetaGravity, who told me about this seriously cool demo project using their Quark Multiplayer technology: A Minecraft world server that's playable (with low lag) by 100,000 concurrent avatars, versus the usual 20-100! In the video above, you're mostly seeing bots to stress test their tech.…
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Last I checked in with "Markcreator" in 2020, the indie developer had somehow figured out how to recreat a Minecraft-like experience in VRChat, inevitably dubbing it VRCraft. This week, he's taken several leaps on that innovation, and is now making it possible for anyone to import their Minecraft worlds into VRCraft. (Watch above.) "One of…
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Philip Rosedale and I were just discussing the challenge of creating user interfaces for virtual worlds, and this post on pass-through technology by my colleague futurist Amber Case, really helps crystalize why Minecraft's UI is so powerful (and successful): All Minecraft’s on-screen UI functions are based around the game’s initial core purpose: Use your creativity…
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With news that Microsoft is shutting down its VR metaverse platform AltspaceVR, along with widespread layoffs across most of the major tech companies, you might assume the Metaverse as an industry is also feeling the string. Not so much. On a quick tally of leading metaverse platforms in terms of active users, along with promising…
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Update, 6/9: This is the Substrate fork on Github that Frooxius created for this Minecraft import. Here's more info on how Frooxius, lead developer of the crowd-funded social VR project NeosVR, seemingly reverse engineered a version of Minecraft and imported it into his world: He didn't actually reverse engineer a version of Minecraft. "It's using a Substrate…
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Earphones on to hear a whole new way of experiencing Minecraft — integrated with High Fidelity's 3D audio API. This not only makes it possible to talk with players around you on the same Minecraft server, but also experience the world itself in immersive audio, so when Creepers are groaning behind you, it will sound…
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Yes, what you're looking at above is Minecraft-style group building in VRChat. The insanely cool brainchild of "Markcreator" (his VRChat account name), it's now available to play for yourself: Click on his Twitter here for more details and the VRChat teleport link. It's actually dubbed "Udon Minecraft", with "Udon" being VRChat's scripting language, and to…
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