{"id":82203,"date":"2022-08-10T17:46:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=82203"},"modified":"2022-08-10T17:49:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:49:26","slug":"the-metaverse-is-not-a-place-its-a-communications-medium-oreilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/08\/10\/the-metaverse-is-not-a-place-its-a-communications-medium-oreilly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Metaverse Is Not a Place: It\u2019s a communications medium. [O\u2019Reilly]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/radar\/the-metaverse-is-not-a-place\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Metaverse Is Not a Place<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from oreilly.com by Tim O&#8217;Reilly<br \/>\n<em>It\u2019s a communications medium.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Foundations of the metaverse<br \/>\n<\/strong>You can continue this exercise by thinking about the metaverse as the combination of multiple technology trend vectors progressing at different speeds and coming from different directions, and pushing the overall vector forward (or backward) accordingly. No new technology is the product of a single vector.<\/p>\n<p>So rather than settling on just \u201cthe metaverse is a communications medium,\u201d think about the various technology vectors besides real-time communications that are coming together in the current moment. What news from the future might we be looking for?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Virtual Reality\/Augmented Reality<\/strong>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Social media<\/strong>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gaming<\/strong>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>AI<\/strong>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cryptocurrencies and \u201cWeb3\u201d<\/strong>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Identity<\/strong>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/metaverse?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#metaverse<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AI?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AI<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/communications?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#communications<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gaming?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#gaming<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/socialmedia?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#socialmedia<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cryptocurrencies?src=hashtag_click\">#cryptocurrencies<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Web3?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Web3<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/identity?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#identity<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bots?src=hashtag_click\">#bots<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/XR?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#XR<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VR?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#VR<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/emergingtechnologies?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#emergingtechnologies<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metaverse Is Not a Place &#8212; from oreilly.com by Tim O&#8217;Reilly It\u2019s a communications medium. Excerpt: Foundations of the metaverse You can continue this exercise by thinking about the metaverse as the combination of multiple technology trend vectors progressing at different speeds and coming from different directions, and pushing the overall vector forward (or [&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":[113,329,26,354,356,817,858,346,434,210,141,533,37,95,391,419,418,180,64,46,825,7,510,559,87,23,182,62,133,219,279,309,836,166,105,480,40,460,48,834,835,205,195,118,206,321,312,367,189,846,273,164,253,11,562,49,824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-3d","category-av-audiovisual","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-bots","category-cryptocurrencies","category-distance-education","category-dramatheater","category-emerging-technologies","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-experimentation","category-future","category-global-globalization","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-immersion","category-innovation","category-it-in-he","category-k-12-related","category-law-schools","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-learning-hubs","category-learning-spaces","category-multimedia","category-new-media-literacies","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-online-tutoring","category-participation","category-platforms","category-remote-teaching-learning","category-social-learning-networks","category-social-media","category-society","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-technology-general","category-telecommunications","category-telelegal","category-telemedicine-telehealth","category-telepresence","category-tools","category-training-corporate-universities","category-trends","category-united-states","category-user-experience-ux","category-vendors","category-videoconferencing","category-virtual-courts-law-firms","category-virtual-field-trips","category-virtual-k-12-schools","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning","category-vision-possibilities","category-wearables","category-web-based-collaboration","category-xr-extended-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82203","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=82203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82207,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82203\/revisions\/82207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}