What happened to the Metaverse? 

We haven’t heard much about the Metaverse lately. AI has overpowered current mindshare.

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But the Metaverse has value, but not in its current “co-presence is everything” model.

 

In our view, co-presence is a feature of the AI web, not core to its value.

 

Just like the World Wide Web, where people navigate to websites and get value, people can navigate to the AI web and get value from any site without the required co-presence that the Metaverse dictates.

 

In the AI web, you can navigate to space, interact with objects, view and gain information and do many functions without the need for anyone else to be in the same space. But if you’d like to interact with somebody, you can simply parachute into the space and interact with people that are there. You might find friends that you invite to meet you there, sales people in sales sites, educators and education sites, whatever the site defines will dictate which contacts and content exists there.

 

There’s another huge difference between the AI web and the Metaverse. The Metaverse is defined as an application that is early bound meaning the functions available are bound to the space at the time the application is compiled.

 

This “early-bound” model is quite difficult to scale and almost impossible to integrate among other functions that exist outside of the space defined by the particular Metaverse application.  

 

The AI Web on the other hand, operates in a similar way as the World Wide Web meaning things can be connected any time without re-compiling an app. This is the definition of late-time binding, and without this functionality, the web would’ve never scaled to what it is today. Some might remember America Online and how they tried to dominate the “information superhighway”. This worked for a short time, but when the web came along with its late-bound properties, it meant the web could scale, remain connected with late-time-binding of web sites. AOL was an early-bound proprietary platform and it didn’t stand a chance.

 

The Metaverse has things to offer. But its early-bound architectural model simply won’t scale and extend so it can never scale like the web. But there are some Metaverse functions that can be late-bound into the AI-web in a far easier manner and in a far more scalable way.

 

So some Metaverse apps are “cool” but Metaverse functions inside the AI-Web are outstanding.