Building the metaverse is more about metadata (and less about 3D).
When in 1999 Tim Berners-Lee conceptualised the semantic web he couldn’t know he was inadvertently spoiling the technological foundations of the metaverse. And he wasn’t even talking about virtual reality, neither avatars nor anything else similar… he was “just” talking about machines understanding data about data:
“I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web — the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A “Semantic Web”, which makes this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The “intelligent agents” people have touted for ages will finally materialize”
But why this is all about the metaverse, you may ask? Because the metaverse (as an engine mapping and elaborating the meta-layer we need in the real-time context we need) requires to understand the world through data. And this requires metadata.
Before a 3D engine could enter the stage, the metaverse engine needs to map the time-spatial relations between entities and compute the results of the laws of physics -or economics or whatever else is the law the code sets- and update the state of that specific metaverse.
