It’s okay to be confused about the metaverse. Pessimists can point to the Meta’s difficulties over the past year to convince us we’ll all live in this immersive 3D world. Optimists can point to a Apple is expected to unveil its mixed reality headset In just a few days, Nima is a technology that has taken years to develop.
Put Neil Stephenson, 1992 Snow Crash is a dystopian science fiction novel He introduced the term metaverse, into the optimist camp.
Stevenson said Wednesday in an interview with Augmented Reality Gallery.
Stevenson’s vested interest is not from his account. He’s worked at several startups since the 1990s, including augmented reality headset maker Magic Leap, but his current efforts, Lamina 1working on plumbing a metaverse that it hopes will lead to an open foundation that’s easy for developers to build on and people can visit.
It’s going to be a tough sell. The hype for the 2021 metaverse has dampened considerably. Facebook renamed itself Meta, but investors criticized its ambition to profit from meta. and the Web3 movement, which aims to build “decentralized” metaverse tools that will reward those who create salable items in the metaverse, He suffered from constant problems. This includes scams, security vulnerabilities, and “rug pulls” whereby project organizers hype cryptocurrency and then cash out, leaving investors with worthless assets.
Creative strategist Olivier Blanchard is a skeptic and advocate of the adoption of computer-generated virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) that blends computer images with the real world, and the umbrella term that encompasses both mixed reality (XR).
“Once the AI gold rush has subsided, and Apple has finally given it some sense of direction, it will have to decide what it wants to be when it grows up if it has any hope of attracting mainstream consumers,” Blanchard said. “The Metaverse and XR companies will have to clearly communicate to users how their solutions will make their lives better rather than just more expensive and complicated.”
But it might be a metaverse, or at least a hard sell soon.
Apple’s highly anticipated headset, which has been years in the works and is likely to appear at the company’s WWDC developer conference, could help convince developers to build mixed reality apps. Apple has been successful in getting mobile developers to write millions of apps for iPhone and iPad. Meta works in the field of VR headsets a Quest 3 XR headset for whom video pass mode It will grant her AR abilities.
The metaverse still has a long way to go before matching the current web or environment prevailing in Snow Crash.
Snow Crash is a fun-filled novel that uses humor and adventure to pull off its dystopian vision. The metaverse plays a central role in the book, but Stevenson places the blame for the dystopia on human society more broadly. With the metaverse, Stevenson wanted to introduce a technological world that would accommodate a wide range of human activity.
“Our initial exposure to the metaverse is kind of a very vast market, the lowest common denominator to include … the worst of television,” Stephenson said. But later on, as we go further into the book, we see that people have used it to make beautiful works of art. There are some people… who have spent a lot of time and attention building homes in the metaverse that are wonderful works of art, both visually and in this way. acoustic environment.
This metaverse used to be about virtual reality, but Stevenson is taking a broader definition today, “3D shared virtual environment,” which includes AR as well. Although Snow Crash is best known for its metaverse style, there are “gargoyle” characters in the real world, too, uber-techies hiding behind augmented reality goggles who are constantly tapped into their data feeds.
Stephenson said he was impressed by the advances in VR, AR and XR technologies, particularly with game engine tools such as Unity and Unreal Engine that are widely used for 3D graphics and games. But so far, there isn’t enough reason to hang around in the Metaverse.
Uri Inbar, technology leader for Augmented, Mixed, and Extended Reality, speaking at AWE 2023 next to a virtual version of himself.
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“If we’re going to have a metaverse that’s being used all the time by millions or billions of people, there has to be experiences in the metaverse that are worth experiencing,” Stevenson said. Lamina1’s goal is to improve the metaverse tools so developers and other creators can build those experiences. This includes blockchain technology and NFT which has lost a lot of its luster as cryptocurrencies have lost a lot of their value since they peaked in 2021.
At the Augmented World Expo, AR fans are in abundance, including the show organizer and AugmentedReality.org CEO Uri Inbar, who shared the stage with an almost life-size virtual version appearing in a telepresence box he designed ARHT Media. Inbar spent most of his 20 minutes on stage defending the technology, arguing that it is thriving despite the tech world’s attention shifting to AI.
“We will not rest until everyone is using XR, everywhere and all the time.”
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