To that end, there are also countless startups
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 5:14 am
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While it’s convenient to think of a single leading company or experience ushering in the metaverse, the process itself will truly be led by a Cambrian explosion of different “things” coming together not that there can’t be leaders or big winners. trying to build early, metaverse-prototype-style experiences. Ubiquity6 , for example, hopes to use millions of individual content creators to “map” the real world, and then build smartphoneARVR-accessible digital experiences on top of those maps. The poland mobile database eponymous Singularity6 is building a virtual world not unlike Fortnite that’s designed to be a metaverse from day one. Other companies, like Genvid a portfolio company, are building SDKs that allow anyone to build server-rendered experiences that millions of people can participate in together using live streaming with light client interactions. While this lacks several key properties of today’s metaverse, such as individual “presences,” it begins to bring together large numbers of “players” into fully shared virtual environments in a way that current games rendered via the cloud or locally can’t.
Magic Leap seems to believe that by owning the hardware layer, it can be a core driver of the Metaverse Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson is the company’s chief futurist. Indeed, most of the FAAMG companies seem to believe that glasses will be a key gateway to our digital future, and have collectively invested billions of dollars in the form factor. With this in mind, Snapchat, with its large and engaged social graph, and camera, glasses, location-based experiences, and digital avatars at its core, could play a key role in the Metaverse especially if acquired.
While it’s convenient to think of a single leading company or experience ushering in the metaverse, the process itself will truly be led by a Cambrian explosion of different “things” coming together not that there can’t be leaders or big winners. trying to build early, metaverse-prototype-style experiences. Ubiquity6 , for example, hopes to use millions of individual content creators to “map” the real world, and then build smartphoneARVR-accessible digital experiences on top of those maps. The poland mobile database eponymous Singularity6 is building a virtual world not unlike Fortnite that’s designed to be a metaverse from day one. Other companies, like Genvid a portfolio company, are building SDKs that allow anyone to build server-rendered experiences that millions of people can participate in together using live streaming with light client interactions. While this lacks several key properties of today’s metaverse, such as individual “presences,” it begins to bring together large numbers of “players” into fully shared virtual environments in a way that current games rendered via the cloud or locally can’t.
Magic Leap seems to believe that by owning the hardware layer, it can be a core driver of the Metaverse Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson is the company’s chief futurist. Indeed, most of the FAAMG companies seem to believe that glasses will be a key gateway to our digital future, and have collectively invested billions of dollars in the form factor. With this in mind, Snapchat, with its large and engaged social graph, and camera, glasses, location-based experiences, and digital avatars at its core, could play a key role in the Metaverse especially if acquired.