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The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft

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Re: The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft

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Post by vyrotek »

achenatx wrote: post #2

its actually roblox

Indeed. All my kids went through a huge Minecraft obsession along with their friends but have all now moved on to Roblox. They find the "games" more entertaining to build and play now. It's become the social hang-out just to chat with friends as well. The Roblox VR experience is pretty fun too.

My only problem with Roblox is that it's not on the Switch and they all want better tablets and computers to play it now.

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Post by kn8a »

Karawebnetwork wrote: post #8

There is a lesser-known part of Minecraft already used by educators: https://education.minecraft.net/en-us/discover/impact This is the kind of product I hope for with the Metaverse but will probably never see.

Mojang have also cracked down on brands from 2016. "Mojang spokesperson Owen Hill pointed to situations where something like a car company would build or commission an independent developer to build a Minecraft server with specific purpose of advertising a new vehicle." https://venturebeat.com/2016/05/31/microsoft-bans-corporatio...

Re: The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft

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Post by PicassoCTs »

clpm4j wrote: post #18

(Aware of the fact that I'm taking time out of my day to read HN) I really wonder how many adults > 25yrs and < 60yrs have the time to immerse themselves in any type of digital world / metaverse experience. If I was a teenager or in college, then yeah I can see it... but there are so many things to do in the 16hrs we have each day, and I already kick myself for not finishing that book, or getting an extra workout in,…

Unless.. its super easy to convert what obsesses ones day into 3d and park it in the world. But then its just humanitys meme & memory junkyard.. kind of like a book with sad faces.

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Post by cbhl »

clpm4j wrote: post #18

(Aware of the fact that I'm taking time out of my day to read HN) I really wonder how many adults > 25yrs and < 60yrs have the time to immerse themselves in any type of digital world / metaverse experience. If I was a teenager or in college, then yeah I can see it... but there are so many things to do in the 16hrs we have each day, and I already kick myself for not finishing that book, or getting an extra workout in,…

The ones that I have met did so because their children were into it. An hour or two a day adds up pretty quickly if you're building

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Post by mmmeff »

clpm4j wrote: post #18

(Aware of the fact that I'm taking time out of my day to read HN) I really wonder how many adults > 25yrs and < 60yrs have the time to immerse themselves in any type of digital world / metaverse experience. If I was a teenager or in college, then yeah I can see it... but there are so many things to do in the 16hrs we have each day, and I already kick myself for not finishing that book, or getting an extra workout in,…

I think the end vision for the metaverse is to swallow up a lot of those time sinks in a typical lifespan. Working, shopping, socializing, etc. could theoretically be supplanted by a metaverse (for better or worse).

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Post by prox »

teraflop wrote: post #15
prox wrote: post #14

The Metaverse sounds like a protocol for VR/AR worlds, but I don’t think I read there is any consortium working on such an open protocol. Unless such a protocol already exists?

Lack of openness is a feature, not a bug.

You mean for the companies working on metaverses?

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Post by prox »

thinkmassive wrote: post #20
prox wrote: post #14

The Metaverse sounds like a protocol for VR/AR worlds, but I don’t think I read there is any consortium working on such an open protocol. Unless such a protocol already exists?

It was called VRML[0] and was superseded by X3D[1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D

The article mentions a (discontinued) 3d browser, which would be a necessity probably for any type of metaversial web.
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