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Awesome Metaverse

List of awesome projects and information resources about the Metaverse. Since
there are many competing ideas about what the Metaverse is, feel free to leave feedback in the form of pull requests,
issues, and comments. You can also reach us through discord.

WebXR

WebXR Explainer - What is WebXR and what are the
use-cases?
Awesome WebVR - Curated list of awesome WebVR packages and resources
Exokit - WebXR meta-browsers, engines, avatar systems, and more
- Exokit overview - Unofficial overview of the Exokit toolkit
- Exokit Web - The web metaverse engine
- Exokit Web 2 - Make the API simpler and easier to understand
Webaverse - 100% open source web based metaverse / game engine
Awesome WebXR - Compilation of links for WebXR demos, frameworks, editors
and more
- Awesome WebXR 2
Web3XR - Site explaining the intersection of Web3 and WebXR technologies, WIP
Glitch WebXR tutorials - Editable templates and guides for making your own WebXR sites

Social VR

Open Source Frameworks

Elements marked with 🟢 are MIT-licensed.

Elements marked with ⚫ are not licensed.

Elements marked with 🟣 are under Mozilla Public License 2.0.

Elements marked with 🟠 are under Apache 2.0 License.

Elements marked with 🔴 are commercial / custom license.

🟢 JanusWeb - Web framework for building interconnected virtual reality
experiences.
🟢 Janus Guide - Learn to build open source self-hosted virtual worlds
connected by portals.
🟢 a-frame - JS framework for building 3D/AR/VR experiences.
⚫ Exokit Avatar Component - Importing full IK avatars into aframe
webxr apps.

🟣 Hubs - Multi-user virtual spaces in WebXR, made by Mozilla.

Hubs Creator Labs - Inspiration, creativity and knowledge that transcends Hubs.

⚫ ~~High Fidelity~~ - Open source VR software platform. (Deprecated)

🟠 Vircadia - Community maintained fork of High Fidelity.

⚫ ~~Tivoli Cloud~~ - Open source fork of High Fidelity.

🟠 Decentraland - A blockchain-based virtual world (not VR yet).

🟢 Webaverse - 100% open source web based metaverse / game engine.

🟢 XR3ngine - Open source framework for building scalable realtime social apps.
🔴 Croquet - A new web-based operating system that runs on any device.

Open Source Tools

Blender - #1 open tool for 3D creation, modeling, and much more
Spoke - Easily create custom 3D environments
Open Brush - Derivative made from the open source code of Tilt Brush
Three.js editor - Web editor for three.js
Babylonjs editor - Web editor for babylon.js

Commercial Frameworks & Tools

Cryptovoxels - Virtual world owned by its users
Somnium Space - Persistent blockchain based virtual world
NeosVR - Engine designed to accelerate the development of social VR applications
VRChat - Biggest social VR platform with UGC of worlds and avatars
- Awesome VRChat - One-stop shop for people interested in developing
  content for VRchat
Omniverse - Real-time simulation and collaboration platform
for 3D production pipelines
dot big bang - Web-based multiplayer UGC gaming platform with built-in tools and
Typescript scripting
Helios - Unreal Engine based UGC worlds, avatars and gaming platform
Horizon Worlds - Meta (previously Facebook) announcement video of The Metaverse
FrameVR - No-code creation of browser based virtual worlds
Monaverse - Mint and display 3D spaces in Unity webgl powered 3D worlds, VR support soon
RP1 - An upcoming platform "that can synchronously connect hundreds of millions of users
to one another in a real-time, persistent virtual world, without the need for sharding."
~~AltspaceVR~~ - AltspaceVR is a leading platform for live events, artists, brands and businesses (RIP)
Hyperfy - webxr enabled platform that lets you own and build anything you can imagine

2D Platforms

Worldwide Web3 - Free to play interoperable MMORPG metaverse project on Ethereum, closed source
Gather Town - Virtual office and event space, closed source
Atlantis World - Web3 social metaverse platform, closed source
Work Adventure - collaborative virtual office web app presented as a 16-bit RPG video game,
open source

Avatar Providers

Ready Player Me - Cross-game Avatar Platform for the Metaverse
VRoid Hub - Platform for uploading humanoid VRM avatars
Cryptoavatars - Unique VRM avatars on the Ethereum blockchain
Mixamo - Easy tool to rig and animate characters, by Adobe
Booth.pm - Indie marketplace that contains many 3D avatar / world assets

Protocols and Standards

Layer 1

Bitcoin - Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money.
Ethereum - Ethereum is a technology that's home to digital money, global payments, and
applications.
Optimism - Optimism is a low-cost and lightning-fast Ethereum L2 blockchain

File-Sharing & Content Delivery

Dat - a peer-to-peer protocol
IPFS - a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
BTFS - BTFS provides global decentralized storage service with high reliability.

Non-Fungible Tokens

OpenSea - The largest NFT marketplace.
Zesty Market - A marketplace for rentable NFT banner spaces in XR
oncyber - Easy platform to display NFTs in a virtual world, built on threejs

Soulbound Tokens

Others

glTF - Runtime 3D asset delivery
VRM - File format for 3D humanoid avatars
WebXR - Accessing VR/AR hardware on the web
Open Metaverse Interoperability group (OMI) - Working group for open protocols / standards
Metaverse Standards Forum - a new venue for cooperation between standards
organizations and companies to foster the development of interoperability standards for an open and inclusive
metaverse

Games & Virtual Worlds

Roblox - Massive online
multiplayer UGC gaming platform
Gala Games - Through decentralization, players not only own their in-games items, but
they have a voice in how the Gala Games roadmap develops.
Spider Tanks - The 1st Play-to-Earn E-Sport PVP.

Books

Sci-Fi

📖 Neuromancer - (80s) Defined the Cyberpunk genre and the term Cyberspace

📖 Snow Crash - (90s) Coined the term Metaverse as a successor to the
Internet, author Neal Stephenson recently cofounded Lamina1.

📖 Ready Player One - (2011) Hit book that later became a Spielberg
movie

📖 Ready Player Two - (2020) Sequel to Ready
Player One

📖 Rainbows End - (2006) Increasingly digital/virtual world with
ubiquitous computing

📖 Idoru - Virtual celebrities and decentralized virtual worlds, Book #2 in Bridge
Trilogy

Non-fiction

📖 The Spatial Web - How web 3.0 will
connect humans, machines and AI to transform the world

📖 The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything -
Upcoming book by Matthew Ball

📖 Step Into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy -
Mark van Rijmenam

Media

Content Generation

synthesia.io - Turn boring docs, PowerPoints, or PDFs into engaging
training, how-to or product marketing videos.

Movies

🎥The Matrix - When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a
forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil
cyber-intelligence.

🎥The Matrix Reloaded - Freedom fighters Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to
lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the
systematic forces of repression and exploitation.

🎥The Matrix Revolutions - The human city of Zion defends itself against the
massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent
Smith.

🎥The Matrix Resurrections - Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday
life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson
will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.

🎥The Thirteenth Floor - A computer scientist running a virtual reality
simulation of 1937 becomes the primary suspect when his colleague and mentor is murdered.

🎥eXistenZ - A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest
virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

🎥Free Guy - A bank teller discovers that he's actually an NPC inside a brutal,
open world video game.

🎥Tron - A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to
participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.

🎥Tron: Legacy - The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his
father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a
unique ally who was born inside the digital world.

🎥Wreck-It Ralph - A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to
fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.

🎥Ralph Breaks the Internet - Six years after the events of "Wreck-It Ralph,"
Ralph and Vanellope, now friends, discover a wi-fi router in their arcade, leading them into a new adventure.

🎥Wreck-It Ralph 2 - Based off Ralph Breaks the Internet, experience the
cooperative virtual reality adventure as you help Ralph and Venellope escape a security program who erases every type
of virus.

🎥Ready Player One - When the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS
dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his
fortune and control of his world.

🎥Black Mirror (USS Callister & San Junipero
in particular) - An anthology series exploring a twisted, high-tech multiverse where humanity's greatest innovations
and darkest instincts collide.

🎥Upload - A man is able to choose his own afterlife after his untimely death,
by having his consciousness uploaded into a virtual world. As he gets used to his new life and befriends his angel (
real world handler), questions about his death arise.

🎥Inception - A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of
dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past
may doom the project and his team to disaster.

🎥Surrogates - Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and
interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to
investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

🎥Total Recall - A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is
a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would
like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.

Articles and Blogs

The Metaverse Primer - 9 Part series from Matthew Ball
Matthew Ball – The Future of Media: Movies, the Metaverse, and More -
Investor field guide to the Metaverse
The Metaverse by Matthew Ball - What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will
Build It, and Fortnite
A Primer on the Metaverse -
Venturebeat article on the next iteration of the Internet
Parts List for the Metaverse - List by Philip
Rosedale
The Metaverse Explained - Loup Ventures
take on the Metaverse in 4 parts
Metaversing - Exploring issues related to the Metaverse and design choices and challenges
Makers Guide to the Metaverse - 2015 article
on 5 principles to build into the Metaverse
Metaverse Lab - Experiments with VR/AR, Neural Networks, and 3D Internet
PUDDLES to OASIS - Wired article on connecting disparate
virtual worlds
A Multiverse, not the metaverse - 5 Part series on
Multiversing by Techcrunch
The library inside Minecraft and our future in the Metaverse -
The Uncensored Library
Roblox believes user-generated content will bring us the Metaverse -
Roblox wants players to build the metaverse
Balaji Srinivasan on Building a “Pseudonymous Economy” -
Pseudonymity is already the norm in virtual worlds
WHAT IS THE METAVERSE, AND DO I HAVE TO CARE? -
Verge article that's one part definition, one part aspiration, one part hype
The Economy of the Metaverse -
Interview with Epic CEO Tim Sweeney
Mark Zuckerberg Metaverse Interview -
Zuck on Facebook becoming 'a Metaverse Company'
The Metaverse is Everything - Article by
Doug Thompson on why we're talking about the Metaverse now
Building the Metaverse with janusVR - From 2015 but still
relevant for building 3D internet experiences
The Seven Rules of the Metaverse - A
framework for the coming immersive reality by auradeluxe
Building the Open Metaverse Podcast - Hosted by Patrick
Cozzi (Cesium) and Marc Petit (Epic Games)
IPSME - Dr. Kim Nevelsteen - Idempotent Publish/Subscribe Messaging Environment (IPSME)
can be used for both client-side and server-side interoperability, or between blockchains; systems can be integrated
without being taken down and re-engineered; avoids the need for standardization and supports legacy systems; and,
reduces the complexity of integrating systems
How the Open Metaverse Will Transform Our Online Identities -
Interview with maintainer of this awesome list by Richard MacManus

Crypto

Into the Void: Where Crypto Meets The Metaverse - Piers
Kicks article on blockchain based underpinnings for an open Metaverse
The Open Metaverse OS - Exploration & framework for how
web3 innovations converge with The Metaverse
Larping Ethereum -
Look into NFT Value from Interoperable Utility
Interoperability in the Blockchain Gaming World - Ideas
about connecting blockchain based virtual worlds
The Virtual Economy - Stunning wbesite presentation about the intersection of
crypto and virtual worlds
Zima Red - NFTs, Virtual Worlds, Blockchain Games
NFT Canon - Go-to resource curated by a16z about NFTs
The Great Online Game - Blog post about the multiplayer meta game
of the Internet
A Primer on VR & the Blockchain -
20 Big Ideas about the Decentralized Metaverse by Kent Bye
CC0 Compendium - curated selection of
resources about CC0 NFT projects
7 Essential Ingredients of a Metaverse - Article by a16z
on what distinguishes virtual worlds from an open metaverse
Metaversal | Bankless - a top newsletter about crypto and metaverse by William
M. Peaster

White Papers

Links

M3-org Research - Community for builders and makers of the open metaverse
urn-namespaces - A common identifier for assets across the
metaverse
Anarchy Arcade - Advanced 3D desktop and shortcut launcher built on Source engine
- MetaShortcutFormat - Spec to dynamically generate rich
  presence representations for generic shortcuts
Emergent web metaverse - Looking at the web's
past to catalyze conditions for the future Metaverse
Hubs Master Plan - Hubs / Spoke plans
for the emerging web Metaverse
Metaverse Standards Overview (2014) -
From the IEEE Virtual World Standard Working Group
Tim Sweeney at SIGGRAPH 2019 -
Foundational Principles & Technologies for the Metaverse
Solipsis - Toward a Peer-to-Peer Shared Virtual
Reality
- Solipsis Presentation -
  Slideshow version
3D Virtual Worlds and the Metaverse - Current
Status and Future Possibilities
Metaverse Reading List - Topics for informed
metaverse discussion by TrevorFSmith
Raph Koster's Website - Industry veteran that has been
working on virtual worlds and interop for decades
xrdevlog.com - Metaverse interoperability projects and experiments
by dankvr
AngellXR - A Metaverse Incubation Community championing interoperability and collaboration.
XRShowcase - A fun collection of web-based XR experiences.
The Design of Virtual and Augmented Reality -
Writeups by Alexandria Heston

Metaverse Data Analytics and Resources

Landindex is a Metaverse data analytics tool that helps businesses and investors to understand the value of the land at Metaverse. Dashboards of virtual land analytics for Otherdeed for Otherside, The Sandbox, Decentraland other leading virtual worlds.

updates & suggestions

Social VR

Gather - Virtual meeting spaces

Avatar Providers

Genies - Virtual avatar creator

Links

Metaverse Jobs - Metaverse job board

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