{"id":81212,"date":"2022-06-12T14:32:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T18:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=81212"},"modified":"2022-06-12T14:32:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T18:32:45","slug":"a-nice-primer-re-the-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/06\/12\/a-nice-primer-re-the-metaverse\/","title":{"rendered":"A nice primer re: the Metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2022\/02\/13\/what-is-the-metaverse-a-beginners-guide-to-techs-latest-obsession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What Is the Metaverse? A Beginner\u2019s Guide to Tech\u2019s Latest Obsession<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from singularityhub.com by Aaron Frank; with thanks to Jack Aldrich for this resource<br \/>\n<em>The metaverse is the internet, but it\u2019s also a spatial (and often 3D), game-engine-driven collection of virtual environments.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A couple months ago, friends and business contacts started asking me for a crash course on my professional research studying virtual environments. Their interest reflects an explosion\u2014which you\u2019ve probably noticed\u2014of noise and hype surrounding something called the \u201cmetaverse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This article is an introduction for a complete or almost beginner. There\u2019s plenty of mainstream coverage on the topic, but it often conflates concepts: virtual reality is not the metaverse (though it\u2019s related), and crypto\/Web3 by itself is not the metaverse (though also related). Confusing, I know. Whether you\u2019re a businessperson or bystander, this is my best effort to lay everything out.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nSo if the metaverse is just the internet\u2014what about the internet is about to change? To answer that question, I\u2019ve broken this article into four parts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Spatial Computing\u00a0<\/strong>(What is that?)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Game Engines\u00a0<\/strong>(What are those?)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Virtual Environments\u00a0<\/strong>(Is that the metaverse? \u2026<em>sort of<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Virtual Economies\u00a0<\/strong>(Please don\u2019t tell me I have to learn about NFTs\u2026<em>you might<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/spatialreality.io\/doug-thompson-a-beginners-guide-to-the-metaverse-and-why-it-matters-to-enterprise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DOUG THOMPSON: A BEGINNER\u2019S GUIDE TO THE METAVERSE\u2014AND WHY IT MATTERS TO ENTERPRISE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from spatialreality.io<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is the Metaverse? A Beginner\u2019s Guide to Tech\u2019s Latest Obsession &#8212; from singularityhub.com by Aaron Frank; with thanks to Jack Aldrich for this resource The metaverse is the internet, but it\u2019s also a spatial (and often 3D), game-engine-driven collection of virtual environments. Excerpts: A couple months ago, friends and business contacts started asking me [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,26,354,858,210,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-3d","category-av-audiovisual","category-cryptocurrencies","category-emerging-technologies","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81212","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=81212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81214,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81212\/revisions\/81214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}