The Khronos Group is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium of over 150 industry-leading companies creating advanced, royalty-free interoperability standards for 3D graphics, augmented and virtual reality, parallel programming, vision acceleration and machine learning.

The Open Metaverse Foundation

The Open Metaverse Foundation is home to an open, vendor-neutral community dedicated to creating open standards and software to support the open, global, scalable Metaverse.

The Metaverse Standards Forum

Where Leading Standards Organizations and Companies Cooperate to Foster Interoperability Standards for an Open Metaverse

Who will govern the metaverse? (World Economic Forum, May 25, 2022)

Reports and Analysis

Why brands are investing millions in the metaverse - BBC News (Nov 4, 2022)

Insight: New trend report: Into the Metaverse

Life Experience: What I Learned from Spending a Week in Virtual Reality | TEDxVienna

Concepts

Co-presence

Feeling of being physically together even when we are not.

Decentralization

No node tells another what to do
All spaces share same data, not the copy
Information is added and deleted based on consenses from the group
One node fails, others still work
Users of the metaverse will not have to trust in a single authority

Interoperability

Able to take things with you

Persistance

The outfit is a persistent object, which means it will go with youwhen you leave the place to go to another place.

Timeline

2022

2021

2020

First Concert in the Metaverse - In April 2020, Travis Scott and Marshmello performed in the video game, Fortnite to just under 30 million people.

Alien Worlds - This wildly popular dapp was created with a multi-metaverse interplanetary scenario that had NFT characters interacting in a decentralized autonomous organization to mine tokens and perform other tasks. By 2021 Alien Worlds had more than 2.5 million users

First wedding in Metaverse Traci and Dave Gagnon

2017

Decentraland - An NFT marketplace held its first digital real estate auction in December of 2017. It was called the Terraform LAND auction and it’s been an annual event ever since.

2016

Pokémon GO - was the first game to overlay a virtual world onto the real world with player's avatar.

2015

Decentraland - it is a virtual world similar to Second Life and the Sims built on blockchain.

2012

Non-Fungible Token (NFT) - Representing a unique item instead of fungible tokens, which are mutually interchangeable, such as cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

2009

Bitcoin
Blockchain

2006

Roblox - This online platform (a metaverse) was introduced that allowed users to create and play games developed by other users.

2003

Second Life - Second Life has an active user base of a million people, each spending over four hours a day in this virtual world (a metaverse).

1992

Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (a sci-fi) - Stephenson coined the term ‘metaverse’ in this sci-fi referred to a completely immersive virtual reality.
Quoted from Snow Crash:

“He's in a computer-generated universe that his computer is drawing onto his goggles and pumping into his earphones. In the lingo, this imaginary place is known as the Metaverse. Hiro spends a lot of time in the Metaverse. It beats the shit out of the U-StorIt”

“Hiro has a nice big house in the Metaverse but has to share a 20-by-30 in Reality. Real estate acumen does not always extend across universes.”

“They are the audiovisual bodies that people use to communicate with each other in the Metaverse. Hiro's avatar is now on the Street, too, and if the couples coming off the monorail look over in his direction, they can see him, just as he's seeing them. They could strike up a conversation”

“Your avatar can look any way you want it to, up to the limitations of your equipment. If you're ugly, you can make your avatar beautiful. If you've just gotten out of bed, your avatar can still be wearing beautiful clothes and professionally applied makeup. You can look like a gorilla or a dragon or a giant talking penis in the Metaverse. Spend five minutes walking down the Street and you will see all of these.”

1973

Maze War - a 3D multiplayer first-person shooter created the first virtual world

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