Is the Metaverse dead? No, we still strongly believe in Metaverse Worlds, "Spacial Computing", Web3 & virtual spaces as the next form of internet. We experienced the "World Wide Web", Smartphones and web2. Metaverse is next!
#tbt to the WIRED story that started it all – Neal Stephenson Named the Metaverse. Now, He's Building it. Two years ago, LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman wanted to know if a company like LAMINA1 would work work, even if VR goggles are not the future. After founders Neal Stephenson and Peter Vessenes affirmed that it would, Hoffman wrote the company a personal check. LAMINA1 has a compelling mission. The history of computing technology has had an annoying leitmotif of forcing users and developers to choose sides. MS-DOS or Apple. Windows or Mac. Apple or Android. In other cases, platforms have dominated entire product categories, stifling creativity and just plain usability by shutting out rival systems. Remember when Facebook pretty much smothered a plan for an open social platform by refusing to participate? If this were to happen with the Metaverse it would be a disaster. A company that ruled the metaverse would literally own the reality where we work, play, and buy stuff. That’s what LAMINA1 is attempting to avoid. Both Stephenson and Vessenes agree that ultimately there should be a single metaverse, just like there’s a single internet. But that metaverse should be sufficiently flexible to accommodate any number of different experiences and virtual realities. ”If there’s going to be an open source blockchain alternative for people who want to build metaverse stuff, what would that look like?” says Stephenson. “What characteristics would it have as a technology and a social organization?” These are the issues that LAMINA1 professes to tackle. More about our mission, vision, and origins as we rocket toward Mainnet launch later this month: https://lnkd.in/dyDs9qCa
