Metaverse 2021
Nov 6, 2021
What’s the Metaverse?
No authoritative definition yet, but there are some key attributes like:
- Scaling: increasing the current cap of c. 100 per zone to potentially infinite.
- Persistence: technical limitations unlocked, actual digital persistence can improve immersion and create new experiences.
- Interoperability: merging of different games and new systems of interaction between them, value in one game can compound in others.
- Economy: trading across different games, more depth, currencies.
- Identity: evolution of current online identities for avatars that can represent a player in more imaginative or realistic ways.
- Digital & physical: spans across many aspects of life with open and closed platforms.
- Populated by multiple contributors: content from individuals, informal groups, organizations, and commercial enterprises.