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Welcome to the Open Metaverse Wiki

This wiki is presented by the Open Metaverse Research Group, a not-for-profit group of volunteers who are active in virtual worlds and deeply interested in supporting the development of an interoperable, scalable, non-proprietary metaverse based on existing and still to be developed "grids" or whatever succeeds the grid concept of metaverse elements.

About the Metaverse

Links about the Metaverse

• Lamina1
  • Neal Stephenson's proposed new enty to the "open metaverse", by the inventer of the term
    • "... the initial Alpha will be an API backed by existing storage providers, with a technology roadmap focused on getting more fully decentralized as an option for creators that want this." -- Michael, Lamina1CM on Discord
• Venture Beat interview w/Neal Stephenson
• FastCompany article about Neal Stephenson's vision
• Economist's Metaverse Summit interview with Neal Stephenson
• 1st Lamina1 Discord AMA 21 July 2022
• Open Metaverse Conference Feb. 2023 in Los Angeles, California
• Open Metaverse Foundation
• The Metaverse Standards Forum
• The Metaverse Needs an Operating System article by Metanomic CEO, Theo Priestly
• The Metaverse Needs an Operating System, Part 2
• Web3, Interoperability and the Metaverse by Jon Radoff, 22 Nov 2021
• Glossary of the Metaverse by Jon Radoff
• Next Billion Seconds podcast by Tony Parisi & Mark Pesce
  • especially see the series about "History of the Metaverse"
• Open source Metaverse project on SourceForge
• Metaverse Foundation & Blockchain
• 12 Theses on the Metaverse by Patrik Schumacher
• FastCompany article on OpenSim from Jan 2022
• Metaverse Interoperability: Part 1 by Jon Radoff, 24 Jan 2022