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Look into some merges from this commit #32

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madjin opened this issue Feb 5, 2023 · 0 comments
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Look into some merges from this commit #32

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Awesome Metaverse Awesome

List of awesome projects and information resources about the Metaverse. Since
there are many competing ideas about what the Metaverse is, feel free to leave feedback in the form of pull requests,
issues, and comments. You can also reach us through discord.

Contents

Contributing


Table of Contents


WebXR

  • WebXR Explainer - What is WebXR and what are the
    use-cases?
  • Awesome WebVR - Curated list of awesome WebVR packages and resources
  • Exokit - WebXR meta-browsers, engines, avatar systems, and more
  • Webaverse - 100% open source web based metaverse / game engine
  • Awesome WebXR - Compilation of links for WebXR demos, frameworks, editors
    and more
  • Web3XR - Site explaining the intersection of Web3 and WebXR technologies, WIP
  • Glitch WebXR tutorials - Editable templates and guides for making your own WebXR sites

Social VR

Open Source Frameworks

  • Elements marked with 🟢 are MIT-licensed.
  • Elements marked with ⚫ are not licensed.
  • Elements marked with 🟣 are under Mozilla Public License 2.0.
  • Elements marked with 🟠 are under Apache 2.0 License.
  • Elements marked with 🔴 are commercial / custom license.
  • 🟢 JanusWeb - Web framework for building interconnected virtual reality
    experiences.
  • 🟢 Janus Guide - Learn to build open source self-hosted virtual worlds
    connected by portals.
  • 🟢 a-frame - JS framework for building 3D/AR/VR experiences.
  • Exokit Avatar Component - Importing full IK avatars into aframe
    webxr apps.

🟣 Hubs - Multi-user virtual spaces in WebXR, made by Mozilla.

Hubs Creator Labs - Inspiration, creativity and knowledge that transcends Hubs.

High Fidelity - Open source VR software platform. (Deprecated)

🟠 Vircadia - Community maintained fork of High Fidelity.

Tivoli Cloud - Open source fork of High Fidelity.

🟠 Decentraland - A blockchain-based virtual world (not VR yet).

🟢 Webaverse - 100% open source web based metaverse / game engine.

  • 🟢 XR3ngine - Open source framework for building scalable realtime social apps.
    🔴 Croquet - A new web-based operating system that runs on any device.

Open Source Tools

Commercial Frameworks & Tools

  • Cryptovoxels - Virtual world owned by its users
  • Somnium Space - Persistent blockchain based virtual world
  • NeosVR - Engine designed to accelerate the development of social VR applications
  • VRChat - Biggest social VR platform with UGC of worlds and avatars
    • Awesome VRChat - One-stop shop for people interested in developing
      content for VRchat
  • Omniverse - Real-time simulation and collaboration platform
    for 3D production pipelines
  • dot big bang - Web-based multiplayer UGC gaming platform with built-in tools and
    Typescript scripting
  • Helios - Unreal Engine based UGC worlds, avatars and gaming platform
  • Horizon Worlds - Meta (previously Facebook) announcement video of The Metaverse
  • FrameVR - No-code creation of browser based virtual worlds
  • Monaverse - Mint and display 3D spaces in Unity webgl powered 3D worlds, VR support soon
  • RP1 - An upcoming platform "that can synchronously connect hundreds of millions of users
    to one another in a real-time, persistent virtual world, without the need for sharding."
  • AltspaceVR - AltspaceVR is a leading platform for live events, artists, brands and businesses (RIP)
  • Hyperfy - webxr enabled platform that lets you own and build anything you can imagine

2D Platforms

  • Worldwide Web3 - Free to play interoperable MMORPG metaverse project on Ethereum, closed source
  • Gather Town - Virtual office and event space, closed source
  • Atlantis World - Web3 social metaverse platform, closed source
  • Work Adventure - collaborative virtual office web app presented as a 16-bit RPG video game,
    open source

Avatar Providers

  • Ready Player Me - Cross-game Avatar Platform for the Metaverse
  • VRoid Hub - Platform for uploading humanoid VRM avatars
  • Cryptoavatars - Unique VRM avatars on the Ethereum blockchain
  • Mixamo - Easy tool to rig and animate characters, by Adobe
  • Booth.pm - Indie marketplace that contains many 3D avatar / world assets

Protocols and Standards

Layer 1

  • Bitcoin - Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money.
  • Ethereum - Ethereum is a technology that's home to digital money, global payments, and
    applications.
  • Optimism - Optimism is a low-cost and lightning-fast Ethereum L2 blockchain

File-Sharing & Content Delivery

  • Dat - a peer-to-peer protocol
  • IPFS - a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
  • BTFS - BTFS provides global decentralized storage service with high reliability.

Non-Fungible Tokens

  • OpenSea - The largest NFT marketplace.
  • Zesty Market - A marketplace for rentable NFT banner spaces in XR
  • oncyber - Easy platform to display NFTs in a virtual world, built on threejs

Soulbound Tokens

Others

  • glTF - Runtime 3D asset delivery
  • VRM - File format for 3D humanoid avatars
  • WebXR - Accessing VR/AR hardware on the web
  • Open Metaverse Interoperability group (OMI) - Working group for open protocols / standards
  • Metaverse Standards Forum - a new venue for cooperation between standards
    organizations and companies to foster the development of interoperability standards for an open and inclusive
    metaverse

Games & Virtual Worlds

  • Roblox - Massive online
    multiplayer UGC gaming platform
  • Gala Games - Through decentralization, players not only own their in-games items, but
    they have a voice in how the Gala Games roadmap develops.
  • Spider Tanks - The 1st Play-to-Earn E-Sport PVP.

Books

Sci-Fi

📖 Neuromancer - (80s) Defined the Cyberpunk genre and the term Cyberspace


📖 Snow Crash - (90s) Coined the term Metaverse as a successor to the
Internet, author Neal Stephenson recently cofounded Lamina1.


📖 Ready Player One - (2011) Hit book that later became a Spielberg
movie


📖 Ready Player Two - (2020) Sequel to Ready
Player One


📖 Rainbows End - (2006) Increasingly digital/virtual world with
ubiquitous computing


📖 Idoru - Virtual celebrities and decentralized virtual worlds, Book #2 in Bridge
Trilogy

Non-fiction

📖 The Spatial Web - How web 3.0 will
connect humans, machines and AI to transform the world


📖 The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything -
Upcoming book by Matthew Ball


📖 Step Into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy -
Mark van Rijmenam


Media

Content Generation

  • synthesia.io - Turn boring docs, PowerPoints, or PDFs into engaging
    training, how-to or product marketing videos.

Movies

🎥The Matrix - When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a
forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil
cyber-intelligence.


🎥The Matrix Reloaded - Freedom fighters Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to
lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the
systematic forces of repression and exploitation.


🎥The Matrix Revolutions - The human city of Zion defends itself against the
massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent
Smith.


🎥The Matrix Resurrections - Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday
life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson
will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.


🎥The Thirteenth Floor - A computer scientist running a virtual reality
simulation of 1937 becomes the primary suspect when his colleague and mentor is murdered.


🎥eXistenZ - A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest
virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.


🎥Free Guy - A bank teller discovers that he's actually an NPC inside a brutal,
open world video game.


🎥Tron - A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to
participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.


🎥Tron: Legacy - The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his
father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a
unique ally who was born inside the digital world.


🎥Wreck-It Ralph - A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to
fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.


🎥Ralph Breaks the Internet - Six years after the events of "Wreck-It Ralph,"
Ralph and Vanellope, now friends, discover a wi-fi router in their arcade, leading them into a new adventure.


🎥Wreck-It Ralph 2 - Based off Ralph Breaks the Internet, experience the
cooperative virtual reality adventure as you help Ralph and Venellope escape a security program who erases every type
of virus.


🎥Ready Player One - When the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS
dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his
fortune and control of his world.


🎥Black Mirror (USS Callister & San Junipero
in particular) - An anthology series exploring a twisted, high-tech multiverse where humanity's greatest innovations
and darkest instincts collide.


🎥Upload - A man is able to choose his own afterlife after his untimely death,
by having his consciousness uploaded into a virtual world. As he gets used to his new life and befriends his angel (
real world handler), questions about his death arise.


🎥Inception - A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of
dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past
may doom the project and his team to disaster.


🎥Surrogates - Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and
interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to
investigate the murders of others' surrogates.


🎥Total Recall - A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is
a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would
like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.

Articles and Blogs


Crypto


White Papers


Links

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