At the #Matrix talk, nice demo of #ThirdRoom, a VR system built on the top of Matrix. You can have a #metaverse without a GAFA or a stupid startup.

#FOSDEM

Oh, Hell yeah.
It's time to take the #Meta out of #Metaverse. #Matrixverse?

That #Metaverse #bullshit is definitely not the kind you should waste your tiny funds on.

I think that @blender would have more use for this tech but not a messenger system like yours.

People explicitly chose #Matrix in order to not have to deah with #VR bullshit and screaming kids in discord.

So I guess I'll stick with #IRC, #XMPP & #Zulip instead...

@thirdroom

Oh my, so much is happenning. Takes me back to #GarrysMod era and #Wiremod. And then imagine doing #Blockly in #metaverse! 🤯😊

RT @golem@twitter.com

Third Room: Das Open-Source-#Metaverse von #Matrix #Element https://glm.io/170638?s

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/golem/status/1606560417056178178

Philip Rosedale, the founding CEO of Linden Lab (the makers of popular virtual world Second Life) and the CEO of High Fidelity, is on Mastodon!

You can find him here: "@ lincolnDuncan@sfba.social" (*without* the space in between!). Here's a direct link to Philip's profile: https://sfba.social/@lincolnDuncan. #SecondLife #VirtualWorlds #metaverse

Loving the way you present it by the means of #Thirdroom itself with presentation overlay and explain that the only server needed is #Matrix!

That aside, I just hope it'll show more than repurposing Thirdroom for meetings in the future, because no amount of simulated physics and emopacks can supercede human interaction.
🙋 🙋‍♂️ 🙋‍♀️

I especially like what Tyler recently said about #metaverse: https://odysee.com/@thelinuxcast:4/eufy-is-hackable%2C-mozilla-in-the:6?r=4m5K2LYG8bukmpZGW97pNJhBEAZHnVYE&t=2877

*Revisiting* more places is what'll make it more selling to me.

Interesting podcast episode exploring the Metaverse and the attention economy - https://your-undivided-attention.simplecast.com/episodes/stepping-into-the-metaverse-with-dr-courtney-d-cogburn-and-prof-jeremy-bailenson-oG38zMxS

#YourUndevidedAttention #Podcast #Meta #Metaverse #AttentionEconomy

This makes complete sense. There are 9 core developers for #thirdroom, and hundreds of developers on #meta's #metaverse. Of course #thirdroom is farther along.

What does it mean to be a #PlatformCoop? It means we answer to our community of immersers and #WebXR creators; not investors. And this isn't just a platitude, members have rights in our bylaws. Let's make the #metaverse democratic. Join the @immersspace co-op today:
https://opencollective.com/immers-space

If you have good intentions, but help build the #Metaverse, then you are like a small butterfly in a huge field of industrial farming, where the ground is dead by pesticides and fertilizer amply sprayed on the land.

I do not agree on your take wrt #Gamification, though how you describe it has become how many people have come to see it, knowing it from many ways in which it has been abused.

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The #Hyperreality video is one I have much shared. It's superb in demonstrating the dystopia we wanna avoid having at all cost. The #Metaverse is a cold, lifeless, technocratic vision that has very little #humanity to it. And that is no wonder, as it has the tech giants behind it that long ago stopped seeing us as people, but merely small revenue generators. To be milked as cattle.

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My personal #vision is to work towards a #Peopleverse. This concept has nothing at all to do with #Metaverse, and likeness is coincidental. The Peopleverse is the human stratum on top of the #Fediverse that enriches our life with online technology and connects us to our fellow human beings, wherever they are.

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Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh of Pivot for Humanity shared an article critical of #Metaverse in our #HumaneTechnology linkedin group.

With it the comment that "The Metaverse is basically a #MMORPG , albeit one that just…doesn’t…end". I agree with the article, though have a more nuanced take on the role of #gamification as described there.

https://scribe.rip/the-metaverse-pretends-that-life-is-a-game-thats-the-whole-problem-3cf542137666

In these toots I'll copy my comments..

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"... take today’s social media, add a splash of sophisticated 3D, fold in a plethora of options for entertainment and gaming, garnish it all with data-driven personalization, and you are all set to take away your order of a supersized social media network, the Metaverse."

- #PreetiKotamarthi

https://thedecisionlab.com/insights/technology/brave-new-world-how-the-metaverse-may-shape-our-psychology

#MetaVerse #SocialMedia #DataFarming

RT @utopiah@twitter.com

... but wait there is more coming at @FOSDEM@twitter.com about the #metaverse tomorrow!🤩

Guess what though : it is NOT about how a single centralized #surveillanceCapitalism ad-driven corporation is going to entrap us.

No, instead it is about how WE can build a better society together!🫂 https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/1488906845246955524

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/utopiah/status/1490004233558663169