With news that Microsoft is shutting down its VR metaverse platform AltspaceVR, along with widespread layoffs across most of the major tech companies, you might assume the Metaverse as an industry is also feeling the string.
Not so much.
On a quick tally of leading metaverse platforms in terms of active users, along with promising metaverse startups I've written about recently, I'm seeing nearly 800 current job openings at minimum. (And by the way, Microsoft and Minecraft developer Mojang still currently have 6 Minecraft-related job openings.)
Here's links to these job openings available as of today, January 24, 2023:
Roblox, the market leader among metaverse platforms in terms of users, currently has 194 job openings.
Epic Games, developer of Fortnite/Fortnite Creative, currently has 368 job openings.
Rec Room, the most popular metaverse platform among Quest 2 users, currently has 45 job openings.
VRChat, the best next gen metaverse platform, currently has 19 job openings.
Naver Z, developer of mobile metaverse platform Zepeto, currently has 14 job openings.
Lockwood Publishing, the game studio behind Avakin Life, currently has 7 job openings.
Garena, the creator of Freefire, a Fortnite-like metaverse platform that's huge in Asia/South America, currently has 54 job openings.
There's also at least 150 job openings in promising startups featured by New World Notes, including:
How Linden Lab Could Create a Minecraft-Style Game Mode in Second Life
Last week's Comment of the Week included the toss-off line "Second Life cannot be changed to be like Minecraft," but reader Will Burns has this week's Comment of the Week arguing just the opposite:
Yes. In Second Life's early days, the damage-enabled Outlands had much of this spirit and consequently, had a vibrant culture of its own. It really wouldn't take much effort or cost for Linden Lab to experiment with creating a whole new Gamer continent, and see if it gets any traction. And there's already numerous Second Life users building Minecraft-type content. One or two developers could do this in a year or two, so what's the downside?
Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2018 at 11:34 AM in Comment of the Week, Minecraft | Permalink | Comments (6)
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