2021 VW: Report from the metaverse. No building needed. It is already here.

Report from the metaverse.   

No building needed.  

It is already here.  

A look at the metaverse of now.

• Watch on YouTube
• Nov 29, 2018

The metaverse

• "The Metaverse is a collective virtual shared space, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space..."  --Wikipedia
• Virtual worlds, augmented reality, the internet.  
• "persistent, shared, 3D virtual spaces linked into a perceived virtual universe."
• These are already here.  Not finished, still developing.
• But they've been around for years.
• So the metaverse has been around for years.
• Not finished, still developing.
• And we people of the metaverse have been recording them for years.
• Videos of virtual worlds on YouTube  
• Virtual worlds are platforms, not games.
  

User built virtual worlds

• Some virtual worlds allow users to build things.
• Some virtual worlds (Second Life, OpenSim) provide tools to make building easy.
• Many virtual worlds let you rent space and buy or import things to put there.
• These arrangements give users a sense of "a place of your own."

An example

• Comedy (search) NSFW
• Comedy an Lauren's place started in 2007

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But is it shared space?

• We people of the metaverse know how to share it.
• We register in several virtual worlds and move freely among them.
• We communicate on Discord, Skype, email, etc.
• We make videos and share them on YouTube.   

Full sharing: OpenSim and Hypergrid

• Opensim grids are interoperable because they follow a standard protocol.
• So we move freely among them.
• Hypergrid 
• Hypergrid Business

Full sharing: guest entry

• Some web-worlds allow guest entry without registration.
• Since web-worlds run in a browser, we can move freely among these worlds

More sharing: The future

• We already have multiverse communities sharing people across multiple grids.
• Personalized avatars are already developing:  Ready player me.
• NFTs can be used in the metaverse

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