Usually the open source community is very scattered, there are many groups developing similar projects like operating systems for instance. If all open source developers focused on the same system it would be miles ahead of the proprietary alternative but it’s usually the other way around. I think with the Metaverse is important that we focus early on a single project because if the Metaverse gains traction everyone may end up living in Facebook’s virtual reality and that would be the same as if we considered Mark Zuckerberg to be our god.
Imaging in the future that everyone works and socializes in that second life. Instead of going to a workspace or a bar they just put on a VR headset. Then Meta decides to delete your account because you say something they don’t like. It’s practically as if you stop existing.
The thing is : most people don’t want to live in that future.
It only make sense if you benefit from surveillance capitalism.
The funny thing is, this was tried with second life. It flopped hard. I assume same will happen with “metaverse.”
Ah, yes, I saw that episode of Black Mirror. No thank you.