05
May
2022
May
2022
why not every #AR / #VR app is a “#metaverse”,
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/clarification-metaverse-xr-20-philipp-a-rauschnabel/
XR is the gateway to the metaverse.
Searching for "metaverse"
03
May
2022
May
2022
Learning in Metaverse
categories: VR
A new study co-authored by Richard Mayer,
The study took place with about 100 middle school students taking a brief “virtual field trip” to learn about climate science. Some students experienced the field trip while wearing a VR headset, while others watched the same material in standard video on a computer screen.
“higher ratings of presence, interest, and enjoyment,”
The paper noted an obvious logistical benefit to virtual field trips over getting on a bus for an in-person outing. “Virtual field trips make it possible to experience things that are too expensive, dangerous, or impossible in the real world,” it says. The experiment did not address the difference in educational value between a real-world field trip and a virtual one.
for programs like nursing, pharmacy and medicine, VR seems promising for teaching some skills, as a piece of a broader curriculum that includes in-person hands-on learning as well.
25
Apr
2022
Apr
2022
owning in Metaverse
categories: VR
Can you truly own anything in the metaverse? A law professor explains how blockchains and NFTs don’t protect virtual property
claim that tokens provide indisputable proof of ownership, which can be used across various metaverse apps, environments and games. Because of this decentralization, some also claim that buying and selling virtual items can be done on the blockchain itself for whatever price you want, without any person or any company’s permission.
Despite these claims, the legal status of virtual “owners” is significantly more complicated.
It is in these lengthy and sometimes incomprehensible documents where metaverse platforms spell out the legal nuances of virtual ownership. Unlike the blockchain itself, the terms of service for each metaverse platform are centralized and are under the complete control of a single company. This is extremely problematic for legal ownership.
For example, on one day you might own a $200,000 digital painting for your apartment in the metaverse, and the next day you may find yourself banned from the metaverse platform, and your painting, which was originally stored in its proprietary databases, deleted. Strictly speaking, you would still own the NFT on the blockchain with its original identification code, but it is now functionally useless and financially worthless.
02
Feb
2022
Feb
2022
Big Tech and Their Metaverse
Big Tech Needs to Stop Trying to Make Their Metaverse Happen
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/metaverse-big-tech-land-grab-hype
The Metaverse is a fuzzy concept: It entered dictionaries via Neal Stephenson’s 1992 dystopian sci-fi novel Snow Crash, where the Metaverse is the virtual refuge from an anarchy-laden world controlled by the Mafia, and was brought back by a series of blogposts by VC Matthew Ball.
The morality of the Metaverse project is the least of its problems. Unlike Google Glass, the gold standard of tech blunders, it is not an overhyped (and ill-conceived) product: It is pure hype, without a product—except for some hypothetical “building blocks.”
A letter by the CEO of Japanese game developer Square Enix, in which the executive expounded on his interest in NFTs and drew an odd distinction between people who “play for fun” and those who “play to contribute” was also badly received.
14
Jan
2022
Jan
2022
metaverse is bad
categories: announcement
The Metaverse Is Bad
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/facebook-metaverse-name-change/620449/
In the simplest explanation, the metaverse is just a sexy, aspirational name for some kind of virtual or augmented-reality play. Facebook owns a company called Oculus, which manufactures and sells VR computers and headsets. Oculus is also making a 3-D, virtual platform called Horizon—think Minecraft with avatars, but without the blocks. Facebook, Apple, and others have also invested heavily in augmented reality, a kind of computer graphics that uses goggles to overlay interactive elements onto a live view of the world. So far, the most viable applications of VR and AR can be found in medicine, architecture, and manufacturing, but dreams of its widespread consumer appeal persist. If those dreams become realized, you’ll probably end up buying crap and yelling at people through a head-mounted display, instead of through your smartphone.
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more on the metaverse in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=metaverse
10
Jan
2022
Jan
2022
Metaverse cognitive load
Before you build this nightmare as a creator, please google “Cognitive Load” & know that human brain is not designed to process this much amount of information at once, ads or no ads. No matter the speed, this is not the future we want to live in, just NO ❌❌ https://t.co/e4D6UmS3Jv
— Kavya Pearlman (@KavyaPearlman) January 10, 2022
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more on metaverse in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=metaverse
01
Jan
2022
Jan
2022
Metaverse and capitalism
The Metaverse as the new frontier of capitalism
https://medium.com/@connectingtotheworld/the-metaverse-as-the-new-frontier-of-capitalism-639c9494634
Baudrillard’s work from1981, Simulacra and Simulation
Geyh, Leebron, F., & Levy, A. (1998). Postmodern American fiction : a Norton anthology (First edition.). W.W. Norton & Company.
https://mnpals-scs.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01MNPALS_SCS/qoo6di/alma990011637720104318
money and gaming are only the first of being completely pushed into a new all encompassing ‘reality’ of its own.
2021 also popularized the Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) — private property transferred to virtual reality. If on a first level a photo or film keep certain relation to the real, a NFT is a second level of dematerialization of our world and perceived ‘reality’. It simulates, in a virtual world (per se already a simulacrum), the simulacrum of an image/photo/video — and, as if magically, it acquires ‘value’ and it is deemed proprietary.
The future decade’s pressures are more and more on the deterioration of what is left of the real world — climate change, pandemics, automation of work, decreasing populations (first in the West, then in the rest of the world), and scarce resources. The work that produces material things were/are the first to be automated — first in agriculture, then manufacturing and now finally services. In such a decadent material world, continuous growth would not be possible anymore — but with virtual ones
There is never enough data.
super fast internet (5G), increasing data centers, quantum computing, health trackers on human bodies, machine-brain interfaces, internet of things… The goal is for the AI to know how to reproduce material things in a virtual setting.
The COVID-19 pandemic probably accelerated this ‘metaversing’ of reality in many years.
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more on metaverse in this iMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=metaverse
28
Dec
2021
Dec
2021
Socrates Gets Killed in the Metaverse
categories: Digital literacy, VR
https://learn.framevr.io/post/socrates-gets-killed-in-the-metaverse
my annotations here:
https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Flearn.framevr.io%2Fpost%2Fsocrates-gets-killed-in-the-metaverse%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dlinkedin&group=__world__
some of the implications of people spending significantly more time in immersive 3D environments that provide alternative “realities” to the physical world.
20
Dec
2021
Dec
2021
Spatial metaverse platform NFTs
Spatial to focus on becoming a metaverse platform for cultural events and announces $25M in new funding
Spatial, the former augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) collaboration platform, has today announced a significant company evolution to become the metaverse for cultural events such as NFT exhibitions, brand experiences, and conferences, whether on web, mobile, or VR.
17
Dec
2021
Dec
2021
LaTurbo Avedon Is Way Ahead of the Metaverse
LaTurbo Avedon Is Way Ahead of the Metaverse
https://www-wired-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.wired.com/story/laturbo-avedon-digital-art/amp
The artist, who only exists online, was working in digital spaces long before anyone talked about NFTs.
The deal with Avedon is this: They don’t exist offline, simply describing themselves as “from the internet.” They are a digitally native creature, building art across online worlds like Second Life, Fortnite, and Star Citizen, and showing said art in prestigious galleries across the United States and Europe.
There’s no separating the art from the artist, because the artist is the art project, a sprightly-looking, nonbinary virtual being untethered from a human body. You could call them a high-art version of avatar influencers like Lil Miquela, although the most apt characterization might be a cross between the Japanese hologram pop idol Hatsune Miku and the pseudonymous British street artist Banksy—the performance of persona is part of the project. Like the ethereal Hatsune Miku, Avedon is visually represented by an avatar. But while it’s out in the open that Miku is a software-fueled collaboration between teams of humans,