The term “Metaverse” is currently claimed by many groups, driven by different incentives. Some groups attach the term to specific technologies (for example VR, AR, XR, Digital Twins or Blockchains), others see it as a future vision or narrative (sometimes dystopian, sometimes utopian). …

The term “Metaverse” is currently claimed by many groups, driven by different incentives. Some groups attach the term to specific technologies (for example VR, AR, XR, Digital Twins or Blockchains), others see it as a future vision or narrative (sometimes dystopian, sometimes utopian). …

The term “Metaverse” is currently claimed by many groups, driven by different incentives. Some groups attach the term to specific technologies (for example VR, AR, XR, Digital Twins or Blockchains), others see it as a future vision or narrative (sometimes dystopian, sometimes utopian). …

The term “Metaverse” is currently claimed by many groups, driven by different incentives. Some groups attach the term to specific technologies (for example VR, AR, XR, Digital Twins or Blockchains), others see it as a future vision or narrative (sometimes dystopian, sometimes utopian). …

Note: This page is updated whenever new articles are added to the series. “What is the Metaverse” is an interesting question. Objectively the term is a contested future vision, claimed by many groups for their own purposes, driven by individual incentives. Some groups attach the term to specific technologies, for…

Do you remember a couple of years back when every big organization spent a ton of money to build an “Innovation Lab”? “Labs where teams could utilize the latest creative approaches to product and service design in fun and engaging environments!” Design Thinking! Prototyping! Agile! It didn’t turn out too…

I want to talk about a trend I see where designers and developers expect technology to be used only within their stated intentions. Every usage outside this scenario is not considered at all. This is especially bad in Social Virtual Worlds design. User-centric design has a design flaw Let’s overgeneralize user-centric design a bit: Designers create…

When Tony Parisi stated that the first rule of the Metaverse is: "There is only one Metaverse", he meant that the Metaverse is "The sum total of all publicly accessible virtual worlds". This makes sense — As global processing power, storage and bandwidth increases, there are fewer limits at how…

Because I work on and around the Metaverse, people regularly ask me about Web3 and are quite surprised when I dismiss it as a fundamentally flawed and possibly dangerous ideology. Wikipedia describes it as: Web3 is an idea for a new iteration of the World Wide Web that incorporates decentralization…