Museums in the metaverse: How Web3 technology can help historical sites

Beyond virtual reality, mixed reality is also a valuable tool for extending real-life experiences into the past. We can save historical sites like Pompeii from being littered with informational plaques and navigation signs, offering augmented digital information instead. It’s a new form of travel, where ancient sites may be experienced as they were

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The Metaverse, in contrast, is not about eating the world; it’s about creating an entirely new one, from entertainment to community to money to identity. If Elon Musk wants to go to the moon, Mark Zuckerberg wants to create entirely new moons in digital space. This is a place where LLCs make no sense, where regulations are an after-thought, easily ... See more

I think our history with proto-­metaverses should make us more skeptical about any claims for the emancipatory power of technology and technology platforms. After all, each of them both encountered and reproduced various kinds of social inequities, even as they strove not to, and many created problems that their designers did not foresee. Yet this

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7. The metaverse is driving aesthetics for a new era.

He offers a hopeful look at the promise of metaverse communities but also pulls no punches talking about the ways in which craven actors threaten to bring the whole experiment down.