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Welcome to the Open Metaverse Wiki
About This 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 Us
- Our group is called the Open Metaverse Research Group. See our About Us page for more details.
A Preliminary Outline
- This mindmap is presented as a conversation-starter. It also has been suggested as an outline for this wiki. The following sections are based on this mindmap.
Concepts
- Basic Precepts
- OpenSource
- Standards-based
- Interoperable
- Protective of Privacy
- Requirements
- Decentralized Data
- Standards
- Non-proprietary
- Data privacy
- Structure
- Interconnected independent grids
- Geography-based
- Basic Precepts
Mechanics
- Web-based 2D
- Web3
- 3D Virtual Worlds
- VR Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs)
- Haptics
- Implants
- Named-data
- non-TCP/IP
- Identity verification
- Blockchain
TimeLine
- History
- Inception
- Early Attempts
- History
- Present
- Legacy versions
- Fragmentation
- Research
- Planning
- Present
- Future
- Plans
- Pitfalls
- Opportunities
- Ideas
- Future
About the Metaverse
- <youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSgitLzAIis</youtube>
Links about the Metaverse
Articles
- 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
- 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
- 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
- XR Safety Initiative Privacy and Safety Framework from XRSI.org
- UL.org Research's Deb Prince announces Metaverse Standard in development under 8400 for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality at MetaverseSafetyWeek [UL's first standard for fire doors was created in 1903 and is still in use today]
- Hypergridbusiness.com - Reports and resources on interoperability in the Metaverse
Other Organizations
- 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
- Open Metaverse Conference Feb. 2023 in Los Angeles, California
- organized by Lamina1
- Neal Stephenson's proposed new enty to the "open metaverse", by the inventer of the term
- Open Metaverse Foundation
- The Metaverse Standards Forum
- Metaverse Foundation & Blockchain
- Open Metaverse Interoperability Group
