this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2022
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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.

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[–] ErmahghrrdDavid@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Whilst I'm somewhat cynical about the zuck's Meta play being more of a marketing/branding thing to take attention off all the bad press Facebook has been receiving recently, I agree that it can't hurt for the FOSS community to have a vision here for interoperable, open VR and augmented reality tools. I believe we need to popularise federated co-op platforms and tools as much as possible.