The Metaverse

Welcome to The Metaverse Age

Matthew Ball’s Metaverse Book

Matthew Ball, the author of the best (in my opinion) blog posts on “what is the Metaverse” and making sense of the corporate/marketing speak regarding the Metaverse, published his book. I will post a review soon but here is the link to Matthew’s own site regarding his book. Matthew’s book is definitively a must read for anyone interested. Read more →

Meta shows off their Avatar Codecs

Real time rendering of a house model from Meta. Meta/Facebook on their Codec Avatars by the Verge. For a different vision of the Metaverse, here are the digital humans created with MetaHuman Creator from EpicGames. And if you want to watch Mark Zuckerberg presentation at YouTube. Read more →

Meta

October 28, 2021 - one company, based in Menlo Park, California, changed its name to Meta. Maybe this won’t make any difference, but it also looks like there will be some interesting times ahead. Read more →

What Is It

First, there there were the Books! Now… the future of tech and maybe even society itself? Matthew Bell wrote what I believe is the best introduction to what is meant by The Metaverse in 2020. With credits to Matthew Bell’s article above, these are the 7 principles, as he envisioned, of the Stephenson-Bell Metaverse: Read more →