The Metaverse Doesn’t Start in VR, It Starts Here…

TL;DR

• Last week, a patent (originally filed by Sony in early 2022) was made public, called:

  “NFT System for Transferring and Using Digital Content Between Gaming Platforms.”

• In our minds, the metaverse starts quietly, with integrations (like this ) that support basic interoperability.

• Interoperability is something we lost in Web2 (e.g. we can’t take our followings with us seamlessly between say, Instagram and TikTok).

• Web3 aims to fix that.

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Last week, a patent (originally filed by Sony in early 2022) was made public…

The title?

“NFT System for Transferring and Using Digital Content Between Gaming Platforms.”

Now, most patents go nowhere. We know that.

…but we can’t help but get excited about this!

See, we don’t think the metaverse begins as a VR experience, or as a singular 3D virtual world (that comes later).

In our minds, the metaverse starts quietly, with integrations (like this ) that support basic interoperability.

Meaning, our digital identities (and the items/data they hold) are transferrable across all platforms.

Need an analogy?

Think of ‘digital identities’ as email/domain names (e.g. hello@web3daily.co), and the ‘items/data’ they hold as contact lists.

If we don’t like Gmail, we can port hello@web3daily.co and its contacts over to Outlook – or even set up our own email server – because we own the domain and contact list.

That interoperability is something we lost in Web2.

E.g. we can’t take our followings with us seamlessly between say, Instagram and TikTok.

Instead, we start from scratch on each new platform, and rent our identities in exchange for our behavioral data.

In Web3, that all reverts back to an ’email-like’ system, where our Web3 domain names (e.g. web3daily.crypto) act as a universal account, hosting our messages, photos, videos, contact lists…everything!

Meaning, if you were to build a following on say, LensTube (a Web3 version of YouTube), that following – along with all of your posted content – would all made available to you on other social apps, like Orb (a Web3 version of Twitter).

How did we get here from news of a Sony patent? Honestly, we have no idea, but…

‘One social following to rule them all, in perpetuity.’

How cool is that!?