# Mapping the Metaverse

Twitter: https://twitter.com/open_metaverse
Github: https://github.com/omigroup

[@Open_Metaverse](https://twitter.com/open_metaverse) interoperability community group => www.omigroup.org

Github thread: https://github.com/omigroup/omigroup/issues/109

Idea: make a hubs space with maps all laid out there?
Example: https://hubs.mozilla.com/EGCZMQx/brainstorm

Evo welcome to open ways of working together on mapping and interconnectednesshttps://hackmd.io/w_sUTgcpRcSKdN6Torl-WA?both#

Shows orgs and individuals how to get involved, pain points to focus on, where to invest resources into

Today's goals = open ways of working, OPEN SPEC for MAPPING

Jin = perspectives of the internet, imagine the next iterations
Doug - our islands are not well connected yet, we are islands in a vast ocean
navigation through mapping? not the main point

A shared source of truth, a map of emergent patterns and connections, tools and utilities shared

A map can incentivize interoperability over walled gardens as the primary means of https://hackmd.io/w_sUTgcpRcSKdN6Torl-WA?both#engagement/collabhttps://hackmd.io/w_sUTgcpRcSKdN6Torl-WA?both#

### Resources

First steps toward mapping: Doug's blog post https://outofscope.bureauofbrightideas.com/a-map-of-the-metaverse/

> "I want to explore the Metaverse in a spaceship. Like Stellaris, I want to be able to zoom in and out - from the galaxy level and then down to individual solar systems, planets."


Jin's map post = https://hackmd.io/@XR/maps

> Feel like this image can be a useful guide on where to invest resources to make the ecosystem more open, eh? Or perhaps more accessible and fun?
Source: https://twitter.com/dankvr/status/1464357652998275081


"there's a lot more webbiness below"
How do we help projects/teams connect beyond the current political landscape?

Metaverse is something greater than the sum of its parts
Maps serve as basis for immersive space collaboration
Industry maps into 3D or 4D arcades?

## IPFS Ecosystem

Example of visualizing an ecosystem

Example: https://github.com/madjin/ipfs-ecosystem
Mind palace: https://hackmd.io/@XR/hackfs#Mind-Palace


GEtting to these resources together, to share and collab on visualizations and strategies

Map of incentives

How to structure data?
How to visualize it?

Doug Thompson: clustering verticals, open worlds that are very social (web3 enclaves) or enterprise/business use cases (virtual events, conferences) so there's a need to see the layers of continents as a view?

Multiple views, cluster by layers of activity or interoperability?
Flexible ways of structuring data to remap it to the use case?

How do you access it?

Griffin from stage:
expanding on idea on visualizations
developers only or directory?
OMI discord template for filters?
Who is using gltf extensions?
Avatar interop flavors?
Vizualization = is the interoperable core of this directory/map is that clusetered together or is it a loose network?

3D galactic diagram?
Layers to map colored connections for gltf, VRM or other shared protocols

Portal support in colors to note where that's working?
What mechanisms and incentives have been dveloped to encourage reporting?

Git/OS methods? search within metadata?

Dataviz using Janus + directed graphs + mindmapping software, similar to markdown to export to dataviz (link?)

Start with a table/link
Form? Github organization? OS?

Categories:
Text / images / models (3D portal decorations / landmarks?)

Question: INCENTIVES
publishing = you want to participate (FOMO + you'll want to represent your own work well)

People who visit virtual worlds / spaces, what are fields we use to picture it?

Question:
Use cases on top of real world
Real world mapping into metaverse
https://github.com/CesiumGS/3d-tiles
Building the Open Metaverse podcast: https://twitter.com/CesiumJS/status/1453378583028764679

Open map can serve other directories
Interconnected resources: pub/priv directories, navigate real world
Cesium / Niantic both had big recent announcements
Lifting of barriers to political interop recently

We may need to color code certain things like subway map (dotted / fill lines). Some working on highways that won't be built for next year or two. Color code initiatives that aren't perhaps ready but things are in motion.

Lines as referral effect potentially
RPM as example, interopeable with worlds
ok who interop with? triggered email / pinging other worlds linking to, invite to fill form, is that enough incentive?

Award show? (most links win / interopable)
devs optimize for things that are measured
status = incentive

Do we have open data for real world? (tried to encourage XPrize to do this, not yet exactly)
Is there a cc0 earth?

GH gud for now, in future something else? https://fleek.co/space-sdk/?

Clustering = what if we reward collaboration/cooperation with the wider metaverse over attention only? (Griffin, great point!)

Github form and table + 3JS + WebXR open web dataviz?

AR as another degree of freedom = huge public outreach campaign
No code solutions that can use the table in git?

Frances Chen = recentering humanness
digital city/states = we will need governance/curates who care for the relationships between metaverse platforms, like diplomats/ambassadors

Many platform products are trying to do the uniswap/NFT but we still need partnerships, humans maintain relationships for interconnected spaces (interop is interpersonal)

Tagging = how do we measure these human elements? What are the checkboxes we need and which check boxes are not helpful?

Voxelki (Jin please link here) Photogrammetry to blend worlds together, Japanland scale model of Japan with pins that open photogrammetry worlds (pins open a social google earth style connections thru these pins)

A very human way to walk through shared maps?
cc0 open data that we can build on top of?

Collab art on top of the real world maps too?
https://japane.land
https://twitter.com/lileaLab/status/1459485610171723777

Map of ultimate usability
Interop = interpersonal
Relationships between products / tools / teams / countries / ways of working
Turn it into big vision / something applicable

Limbofeather, Florian, Jonathan at ZestyMarket (plus engine with Jonathan) - intention network for webXR to monetize on top of games/experiences
Banners as rentable spaces = how do we help people chart the capabilities of these worlds and what spaces allow for these links?

Portals = how these portals work may need to be 1) incentivized and 2) color-coded or otherwise noted

Open source to work inside Oculus but still be discovered - discoverability is a huge issue for maps/engagement

For Oculus for example, you'd have to be picked (curated) to be discovered inside their meta search space. People rent space to piggyback and get featured without that permission and improve flow between experiences.

Mapping can help with the flow between these new experiences ++
Come to one location and find the others

awesome data vis artist: https://twitter.com/takenstheorem

Augmented perception great way to visualize, uses mind map data

Griffin: building CMS
opt-in star map of these worlds
this mapping system can show tenative relationships
show full interoperability
data viz artists
full interoperable, go through portal with assets / avatar, appear in other world, thats a full connection to the other world
opt-in network is continuous snow crash metaverse

Organizing the FORM/MAP in Git:
Make a great github repo to become something ppl can play with for web3 webxr hackathons

> Is your home space tied to a device? Who owns it? Can you bring it with you? What about your avatar? Can you download your avatar or parcel? Is it based on an open format? Can you hop from one world to the next? How easily? What is the glue between them? Who controls what? Proof?

figure out the check boxes / columns:
- identity
- self expression
- custom geometry for worlds/avatars
- VRM?
- self-hosted
- anonymous engagement?
- privacy/safety for kids?
- platforms supported
- hardware supported
- inventory systems
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- export a
- parcel/
-scene/
-asset?
- webXR
- spatial anchors?
- spatial web/iot digital twins?
- logos
- relational contact info
- 3D landmark to map
- physics
- scripting
- capacity for interactivity

3D Landmap: 

1 pager simple output info card
explore this data

Google earth relies on tags HTML so metatags

Generative conversation on interoperability continues at omigroup.org

Content navigation and design side

Twitter spacse = generative convo places
project / virtual world open, hackmd notes

Existing Metaverse open source projects to include in future maps:
https://code.google.com/archive/p/bubblecloud/
OpenSimulator & OS related plugins
https://code.google.com/archive/p/mmetaverse/
OpenViewer and related client viewers
OpenSim & OpenMetaverse
https://code.google.com/archive/p/openmetaverse/

# December 7th Notes:
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**Factors of Interoperability to Map include:**

* TYPE OF ORGANIZATION
* Business - privately held
* Business - publically owned
* Open Source org
* Nonprofit association
* Educational institution
* DAO or alt collective

* METAVERSE WORLD SUPPORT SYSTEMS
* Self-hosted
* Web-enabled
* SDKs
* Private/lockable
* Public/openable
* Capacity limit per space
* Standards
* Exportability of assets?
* Scenes?
* Worlds?
* Searchability?> Interop/intra/none

* VR CAPACITIES
* Immersive Web Accessibility
* Passthrough XR/OpenXR
* 6DOF

* AR CAPACITIES

* SPATIAL WEB/PHYSICALITY
* Wearables or Haptics?
* Other Sensors Enabled
* Location-Based Interfaces
* IoT Enabled
* Real World Mapping
* Digital Twins Policy Links

* IDENTITY
* SSI
* Anonymity supported?
* Opt-out capacity
* Kids under 13?
* Teens 13-17?
* Data Privacy/Security Statement Links
* WEB3
* Supported ecosystems
* Multichain capacity?
* Wallets/plugins
* Link to Smart Contract or Whitepaper
* DAO supported?
* ASSETS (INCLUDE GLTF)
* Asset formats supported
* glTF portability
* Asset portability/downloadability?
* Inventory sharing?
* AVATARS (INCLUDE VRM)

* avatar interop sdk examples like https://developer.vroid.com/sdk/

* BROWSERS (WEBXR)
* METATRAVERSAL (PORTALS?)
*
* MEDIA (STREAMING, RTMP)
* SOCIAL GRAPH
* CONCURRENCY, SHARDS & SCALABILITY
* ETHICAL ENGAGEMENT
* Links to Ethics/AI statements
* EULA links
* Community moderation?
* CyberXR Coalition iconography on equity, inclusion, diversity & accessibility for all

Use of other OS Software
https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com#license

Need to represent data resources to find best fit such as
https://github.khronos.org/glTF-Project-Explorer/

December 14th:
KinDAO = focusing on humanness, simplify for general participation -

Francis - metaverse design toolkit = Beamable/Jon Radoff's map ++ workflow

Blender + houdini workflow mapping?
3D Asset production but not enough time for mesh production
SNAP for VFX

Houdini + other essential software tools for 3D asset production & procedural for realtime game engines and WebXR?