Henrik Bennetsen cornered everyone he could at MetaverseU and asked them a set of questions about the metaverse:
Now he’s posted all the videos of all the answers — and there’s some good stuff in there.
Here’s my answers:
Tomorrow Space, using Ogoglio tech, has launched, with an interesting and unique model: a browser-embedded 3d chat space running in Java, and you rent it by the day.
So, I’ve already linked to a ton of other people’s commentary on the Metaverse Summit, but I haven’t given any of my own thoughts yet. If you’re used to thinking of me as the pie in the sky idealist, prepare for some grounding…!
Annotated versus virtual reality
There was a definite tug of war between two competing versions of what the metaverse means. One of them is the virtual world thing that most readers of this blog will be familiar with. The other is the annotated world augmented reality thing, which is the idea of pulling web data into the real world by overlaying it on our physical existence via heads-up specs and the like. In between is the “mirrorworld” which is a compromise, replicating the real world into virtual space and then annotating it there.
