Episode 355 — Metaverse Kicks
Games At Work dot Biz
English - January 31, 2022 11:09 - 25 minutes - 29 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTechnology Leisure Games Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Metaverse coworking environments such as #lemverse @sococo @gather_town @getTeamflow @branch_gg , AR sneaker shopping and lessons to be learned from medieval sleeping practices
All three co-hosts are back in force for this week’s episode, starting off with more metaverse topics than you can shake an AR stick at. The team starts off this week’s episode with a discussion on recent patents filed by Meta to attract younger users to the platform. This is followed by Michael, Michael and Andy getting distracted by playing with the Lemverse cowering environment, and remembering prior other examples of virtual coworking environments discussed in Games At Work episodes 165 and 298.
Continuing on the metaverse theme are two articles shared by Ian Hughes - starting with Raph Koster’s “real metaverse” talk and the NBA’s work to use 100 cameras to embed basketball games in a virtual world to create a full-fledged holographic game experience. A tweet (with limited explanation) shows a user interacting with a virtual shopping site for sneakers that reminds Michael and Michael of their shopping patent.
After considering the Sid Meier flight simulation games, the treasure trove of Activision games acquired by Microsoft, and the Mario Odyssey HUD speedrun challenge, the team wraps up this episode with the evolution of sleep, and lessons that can be learned from the pre-industrial revolution era.
What’s keeping you up at night, or at least occupying your time between primo sonno and your second sleep? Let us know over at @gamesatwork_biz !
Thanks for listening!
Selected Article Links
techdirt article: Patent Applications Hint That Facebook’s VR World Might Just Be Web Mutton Dressed Up As Metaverse Lamb
Lemverse
Lemverse on Github
IMDb listing: WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
Games At Work episode 165 Virtual Math (with virtual office space Sococo)
Games At Work episode 298 Black Friday & Light Beer
Sococo
Gather
Huddle
Branch
VentureBeat article: Raph Koster’s real talk about a real metaverse
Sportico article: Brooklyn Leaps Into the ‘Netaverse’ With Canon Broadcast Tech
#AugmentedReality: The Future of Shopping by @FrRonconi#VR #AR #VirtualReality #AI #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligenceCc: @davidsmith4324 @maxjcm @ronald_vanloon @xbrlstandard pic.twitter.com/XrnnTvebbI— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) January 16, 2022
Tag Along Shopping patent
Oura ring
PCGamesN article: Sid Meier’s classic flight simulators are now on Steam
Activision
Sid Meier
Mashable article: Microsoft can rescue a historic trove of lost games from Activision’s vault
Kotaku article: Mario Odyssey Speedrunner Completes Absurd, Nearly Unplayable ‘HUD Challenge’
The Atlantic article: Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?