Update, 5:15pm PT: Am now in an interesting Twitter conversation with Tony Parisi, who was metaversing before the Metaverse was cool. Excerpts at the bottom of this post!
You may have noticed last week's announcement of the Metaverse Standards Forum, a consortium of companies and organizations anchored by Meta, Epic, and other industry leaders, proposing to create universal standards for metaverse platforms going forward:
The Metaverse Standards Forum aims to foster consensus-based cooperation between diverse SDOs and companies to define and align requirements and priorities for metaverse standards—accelerating their availability and reducing duplication of effort across the industry.
“The metaverse will bring together diverse technologies, requiring a constellation of interoperability standards, created and maintained by many standards organizations,” said Neil Trevett, Khronos president. “The Metaverse Standards Forum is a unique venue for coordination between standards organizations and industry, with a mission to foster the pragmatic and timely standardization that will be essential to an open and inclusive metaverse.”
I didn't blog about it last week, because I was waiting to receive an answer to the questions I sent to their press contact:
Second Life's New Premium Plus Not Always a Good Deal -- But Could Be Made Better (Reader Comments of the Week)
Lots of good reader feedback around the just-announced Premium Plus offering for Second Life. According to Luther Weymann, getting a Premium Plus in his specific scenario would not be a very good deal:
Yikes. I imagine many SLers are in a situation like his. Speaking of product development, Dee has a very good idea of improving Premium Plus for content creators:
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Posted on Monday, June 27, 2022 at 01:06 PM in Comment of the Week, Economics of SL | Permalink | Comments (0)
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