Hacker News Reader

Consider the metaverse is already here; from message boards, Minecraft servers, COD matches, and chat networks. It's just not as seamless as stepping through doorways to jump servers / software. Or at least not yet.

View on HN

Given some of the constraints of the immersive web currently, Matrix can provide some critical pieces of that user experience. Third Room worlds are Matrix rooms hosted across homeservers. You log in with your preferred client. You can now traverse worlds seamlessly without losing your virtual identity. This can even extend to WebXR where currently you can't traverse across origins while in the headset.

Seamless interoperability is what the "metaverse" is all about and we want to work with people who want that as well.

As a former Minecraft server operator, what differentiates a Minecraft server from any other kind of game server in terms of "the metaverse TM"? Is Nextcloud or Plex "the metaverse TM" too just because someone can spin up their own Docker container? Just sounds like "the internet" we've all known for decades.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com