A look at "transition thinking," a framework for understanding large-scale changes in society, and how indies can disrupt established systems.

Combining lessons from MMORPGs on how to create a more unified, rewarding, and meritocratic online ecosystem with open-source tools for custom 3D avatars and wearables

Demo Days are a chance for metaverse makers to share updates on their projects. jin shares The M3mes, Cynnx has VIPE updates, and BOOM + A made some data viz tools for bountys and money

The evolution of online collectives from the early Internet to DAOs and the short term efficiency vs long-term cultural impact of not dogfooding

Last week M3 speed-ran producing a virtual demo day event in under 72 hours, gathering 5 different speakers and 40+ people into one ultra creative Hyperfy.io world designed by 7OROY. This post serves as a recap and call for collab on future events.

The internet's profound impact on society stems from its remarkable ability to connect disparate machines into a cohesive network, transcending individual limitations into something greater than the sum of its parts. In a similar vein, the Metaverse represents a visionary concept of the future Internet where digital and physical realities coalesce, granting users a seamless experience to navigate between. It’s only through embracing of interoperable open standards that ensure compatibility and accessibility between machines that can make each of these things possible.The Open Metaverse Interoperability (OMI) group is one of those places where you’ll find a community of industry professionals, independent creators, and passionate enthusiasts that intersect these roads. We’re standing on the shoulders of giants today. Collaborating with other stakeholders to define standards is key to what makes the web work, and organizations such as the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) have been around to foster such since 1994. Within W3C are also Community Groups of which OMI is part of:

Technical post on various tools and methods for generating and encoding various levels of details (LOD) for 3D NFTs and avatar projects.

The making of a CC0 avatar collection that aims to raise the bar for 3D NFTs with open source software and extra metadata info

There seems to be many new organizations appearing for the first time, backed by large industry players, to unite companies to build the metaverse. Then there’s M3, a grassroots community of artists and open source hackers that also want the open metaverse and have been operating for almost 4 years guided by the same charter.