Watch: Metaverse Experiment Creates "Portals" from NeosVR to Anyland to Mozilla Hubs to Gorilla Tag

Update, Jan. 12: This demo by @TheRealKoolala is part of an Open Metaverse Interoperability Group project led by longtime Metaverse evangelist Evo Heyning -- follow the group on Twitter @open_metaverse.

Here's a fun experiment in Metaverse teleportation from "Koolala" on YouTube, who's created "portals" that enable him to seamlessly travel from XR-based virtual worlds/online games -- specifically from Neos VR to Anyland to Mozilla Hubs, and finally to Gorilla Tag. I say "portals" in quotes because if I'm watching this right, Koolala cleverly launches each individual world in the background, out of sight from the user (obscured by a closed elevator, in one case), until they're ready to make the leap. Which is a very clever hat trick, though not a literal portal from one code base into another. (Then again, why split hairs if it looks and feels like a portal?)

Hat tip longtime reader "Adeon", who I'm currently talking with on Discord, trying to figure out what is actually being carried across from world to world:

"I can tell it’s just whatever his avatar is on that platform. especially Gorilla Tag," Adeon surmises. "It has no custom avatars. He’s just a [default] gorilla So it’s really just seamless game change... There’s no user account traveling going on here, I think it’s literally just launching the games behind the scenes."

In other words, this experiment doesn't solve the Metaverse "problem" of interoperability of content across various virtual worlds. But then again, I think it's enough that the individual user is able to seamlessly travel from one existence to another -- i.e. it only matters that the operator can interoperate. (A topic for another post, perhaps.)

I've reached out to Koolala for more details! I can see a future version of Steam evolving into something like this. Instead of looking at a long list of games in the Steam store, you'd see many portals into various games, then jump into the one that looked the most enticing -- or maybe, if it was integrated with people's Steam Friends list, you'd see whichever friend was in a given world, waving at you to join them.*

*Though I suspect most people would try it out a few times for fun, then go back to the standard Steam UI.

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