I just had a fascinating chat with Rashid Mansoor of MetaGravity, who told me about this seriously cool demo project using their Quark Multiplayer technology: A Minecraft world server that's playable (with low lag) by 100,000 concurrent avatars, versus the usual 20-100!
In the video above, you're mostly seeing bots to stress test their tech. (Up to 5,000 bots can be rendered on one screen, he says.) MetaGravity is planning to make this Minecraft server publicly available soon, when they're aiming to reach 1 million concurrent users.
This demo is part of MetaGravity's ambitious plans to create a next generation of the Internet (including but beyond virtual worlds/MMO) that's vastly more immersive and allows many more concurrent users. And yes, I asked him if Second Life could run on Quark. (Short answer: yes.)
More on all this soon -- follow my Patreon to read about it first.
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