{"id":77936,"date":"2021-12-21T16:36:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T21:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=77936"},"modified":"2021-12-21T16:50:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T21:50:27","slug":"some-items-re-web3-and-the-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/12\/21\/some-items-re-web3-and-the-metaverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Some items re: Web3 and the Metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/homo-digitalis.net\/web-3-0-vs-metaverse-whats-the-difference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Web 3.0 vs Metaverse: What\u2019s the difference?<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from homo-digitalis.net by Fabian Schmidt<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>So what is Web 3.0?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">On Twitter, a user asked if someone could explain the term in baby talk. I thought one answer was good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Web 1.0 = Read<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Web 2.0 = Read\/Write<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Web 3.0 = Read\/Write\/Own<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This is a sufficient simplification to gain an initial understanding. Yet a bit more information is still important.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Let\u2019s get one thing straight right away. As with all things in the making, there is not yet a clear-cut definition of Web 3.0. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the <em>classic web<\/em>, thinks of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semantic_Web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">semantic web<\/a>\u00a0as the next big step.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nSince 2020\/2021, there is another idea of Web3, and it is inspired by a new form of technology: Blockchains. At its core is a new wave of decentralization.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Besides decentralization, other key topics related to Web 3.0 include Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO), Non-fungible-tokens (NFT), and Decentralized Finance (DeFi).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>The metaverse is a digital world that is meant to feel as real as possible and can represent all concerns of human existence. From leisure to work.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><cite>Fabian Schmidt, Homo Digitalis, 2021<\/cite><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vrscout.com\/news\/bill-gates-most-work-meetings-will-happen-in-the-metaverse-in-3-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bill Gates: Most Work Meetings Will Happen In The Metaverse In 3 Years<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from vrscout.com by\u00a0Kyle Melnick<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWithin the next two or three years, I predict most virtual meetings will move from 2D camera image grids\u2014which I call the\u00a0<em>Hollywood Squares<\/em>\u00a0model, although I know that probably dates me\u2014to the metaverse, a 3D space with digital avatars,\u201d said Gates in the post. \u201cBoth Facebook and Microsoft recently unveiled their visions for this, which gave most people their first view of what it will look like\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2021\/12\/19\/adidas-enter-metaverse-first-nft-products-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adidas to enter the metaverse with first NFT products<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8212; from dezeen.com by Rima Sabina Aouf<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Adidas\u00a0has announced its next collection will be a mix of digital and physical items, and will be sold as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/nfts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFTs<\/a>\u00a0produced with collaborators such as Bored Ape Yacht Club.<span id=\"more-1748466\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Titled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adidas.co.uk\/metaverse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Into the Metaverse<\/a>, the collection will comprise virtual wearables that buyers can use in online platforms, but also the physical clothing to match.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It is Adidas&#8217; first collection of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens \u2013 essentially, digital collectibles with proven authenticity. NFTs act as a blockchain-based certificate of ownership, allowing pieces to be authenticated, bought and collected.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.coinbase.com\/how-coinbase-thinks-about-the-metaverse-16d8070f4841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How Coinbase thinks about the Metaverse<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from blog.coinbase.com by Brian Armstrong &amp; Alex Reeve<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Primitive Metaverse platforms are selling virtual land for\u00a0<a class=\"ct is\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/news\/currencies\/metaverse-virtual-land-sales-record-last-week-sandbox-decentraland-2021-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">millions of dollars<\/a>. Billions more are being\u00a0<a class=\"ct is\" href=\"https:\/\/news.crunchbase.com\/news\/metaverse-startups-funding-investors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">invested in<\/a>\u00a0Metaverse startups. And Mark Zuckerberg recently\u00a0<a class=\"ct is\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/10\/28\/facebook-changes-company-name-to-meta.html#:~:text=Facebook%20on%20Thursday%20announced%20that,growing%20ambitions%20beyond%20social%20media.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">renamed his entire company<\/a>\u00a0to reflect a focus on building the Metaverse.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nRecently, our team put together an internal presentation about the Metaverse, who\u2019s working on it, and how crypto will help make it real. I thought the presentation was well done, so I\u2019m sharing most of the slides here.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nLike Matt[hew Ball], we define the Metaverse as:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"jt ju jv\">\n<p id=\"6f1d\" class=\"ht hu ir hv b hw hx hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq dx fb\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The future of the internet: A massively-scaled, persistent, interactive, and interoperable real-time platform comprised of interconnected virtual worlds where people can socialize, work, transact, play, and create.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe Metaverse is the distant evolution of Web3. In its most complete form, it will be a series of decentralized, interconnected virtual worlds with a fully functioning economy where people can do just about anything they can do in the physical world.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.coinbase.com\/how-coinbase-thinks-about-the-metaverse-16d8070f4841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-77955 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhoIsBuildingTheMetaverseToday-CoinBaseDec21-1024x572.jpg\" alt=\"Who is building the Metaverse today?\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhoIsBuildingTheMetaverseToday-CoinBaseDec21-1024x572.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhoIsBuildingTheMetaverseToday-CoinBaseDec21-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhoIsBuildingTheMetaverseToday-CoinBaseDec21-768x429.jpg 768w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhoIsBuildingTheMetaverseToday-CoinBaseDec21.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web 3.0 vs Metaverse: What\u2019s the difference? &#8212; from homo-digitalis.net by Fabian Schmidt Excerpt: So what is Web 3.0? On Twitter, a user asked if someone could explain the term in baby talk. I thought one answer was good: Web 1.0 = Read Web 2.0 = Read\/Write Web 3.0 = Read\/Write\/Own This is a sufficient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[819,387,61,174,86,209,127,433,297,112,271,858,143,306,37,35,178,419,180,158,276,55,64,239,309,405,367,253,11,299,824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchain","category-business","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-collaboration","category-communications","category-copyright-ownership-nfts","category-corporate-business-world","category-creativity","category-cryptocurrencies","category-disruption","category-economics","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-interaction-design","category-interactivity","category-internet","category-it-in-he","category-new-business-models","category-platforms","category-play","category-vendors","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning","category-vision-possibilities","category-workplace","category-xr-extended-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77936"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77956,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77936\/revisions\/77956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}