Timothy Shih

Many gamers think this is what happens in all online multiplayer video games. But, in truth, most game services send only positional data, player input data (e.g. shoot, throw bomb), and summary-level data (e.g. players remaining in a battle royale) to individual players. 

Animoca Brands acquired Pixowl, the developer of The Sandbox user-created world mobile game, for $4.875 million in cash and stock.

Beyond various platform fees, the Metaverse economy is adversely affected by the policy decisions of various virtual platforms and publishers. These policies make it harder for users to spend money, maroons user spending, penalizes users for spending diversity and or using multiple platforms, and limits the utility of all purchases and constrains t... See more

A crypto investor active at the time summarized Multicoin’s appeal well: “They were pretty much as smart as everyone else, but their portfolio looked totally different.”

Interchange Tools & Standards is defined as “The tools, protocols, formats, services, and engines which serve as actual or de facto standards for interoperability, and enable the creation, operation and ongoing improvements to the Metaverse. These standards support activities such as rendering, physics, and AI, as well as asset formats and thei... See more

If you were hanging around when they first started wiring computers together and you said, “One day this simple innovation is going to let people make millions of dollars selling pictures of their feet to strangers,” Al Gore would say, “please put on some shoes and get out of my office.” But that’s what the Internet did!

Dorsey argues that while Andreessen Horowitz is marketing its Web3 investments (that is, companies dealing in crypto, non-fungible tokens, the metaverse and anything on blockchain) as power to the people, the firm is going to wind up with as much power as it had in Web 2.0 and the people with just as little. 

For example, Nvidia’s founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, sees the next step for immersive simulations as something greater than more realistic explosions or street races. Instead, it’s the application of the “laws of particle physics, of gravity, of electromagnetism, of electromagnetic waves, [including] light and radio waves … of pressure and sound”. ... See more

So even though its objective isn’t necessarily competitive in nature, we should think of the Metaverse as raising the requirements for all aspects of networking — latency, reliability/resilience, and bandwidth — to that of AAA multiplayer games. It doesn’t matter how powerful your device is (see hardware and compute) if it can’t receive all the inf... See more