The AR, VR, MR and Metaverse Intersection

 Augmented_Reality is essentially a digital intersection of various kinds of data for entertainment and learning. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality#Comparison_with_virtual_reality

https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/augmented-reality-AR

https://www.apple.com/ca/augmented-reality , https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/07/24/apple-tvs-mythic-quest-teaser-targets-teamwork-the-metaverse

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/augmented-reality

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/07/25/2485176/0/en/Augmented-Reality-Market-size-worth-88-4-billion-by-2026.html

https://www.gadgetsnow.com/slideshows/google-expands-list-of-android-phones-that-are-certified-to-run-ar-apps-these-are-the-names/photolist/93102374.cms

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/25/23054367/google-ar-glasses-glassholes-coming-back

https://computer.howstuffworks.com/augmented-reality.htm

https://la.disneyresearch.com/innovations/magic-bench/

https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-augmented-reality-2015-10

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-the-metaverse 2022

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-technologies-that-are-taking-us-to-metaverse-in-2022

https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/the-roles-of-vr-ar-and-mr-on-the-metaverse-593569cfb686

https://pixelplex.io/blog/vr-and-metaverse/

https://101blockchains.com/metaverse-vs-virtual-reality

Why Metaverse is the Future of Work... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgIwgtN7xgU , https://www.youtube.com/c/Aluxcom/videos

Microsoft Metaverse vs Facebook Metaverse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DpJlRbbgGU CNET Highlights

Microsoft vs. Zuck's Metaverse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUfCr3hz9FE , https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnCooganPlus/videos

The Metaverse could be a problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgJwPco3wew , https://www.youtube.com/c/Mrwhosetheboss/videos

Trapped in the Metaverse: Here’s What 24 Hours in VR Feels Like | WSJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtLTZUaMSDQ

https://hypebeast.com/2022/7/hbo-game-of-thrones-house-of-the-dragon-dracarys-augmented-reality-app

https://business.adobe.com/ca/resources/5-realworld-examples-of-augmented-reality-innovation.html

The Flux of it all...

https://www.coremedia.com/blog/how-to-elevate-your-digital-business-in-a-world-of-flux

https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/562639949/the-metaverse-platform-flux-to-service-the-game-of-24-million-fan-base-fortress-as-its-nft-game

https://fluxofficial.medium.com/flux-shaping-the-metaverse-with-blockchain-technology-1dc36f5d7bd

https://nl.mashable.com/tech-2/6569/metaverse-platform-flux-to-service-fortress-as-nft-game

Poppy - Flux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C68Okt3Qg8M A frustrating flux of a time in the metaverse.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AR

From the Video Game Wars to the Metaverse Horizion...

 Game Changers: Inside the Video Game Wars: Behind The Scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjPIP-5hss H Channel  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10440380

https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/07/historys-game-changers-inside-the-video-game-wars-a-romp-through-gamings-early-days/

https://venturebeat.com/2021/12/25/video-games-and-their-communities-are-influencing-the-metaverse/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/historys-game-changers-inside-video-game-wars-director-talks-human-thread-gaming-doc-1218737/

https://medium.com/@toddgold/historys-documentary-game-changers-inside-the-video-game-wars-highlights-successes-failures-4416ff775ba4

https://plugavel.com/5137/tech/what-distinguishes-a-metaverse-from-an-online-video-game/

Why Facebook is Spending Billions on the Metaverse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvZSdDC9rWo , https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnCooganPlus/videos

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/10/29/facebook-meta-rebrand-metaverse-video-games/

Gaming in the Metaverse! Zuckerberg reveals its future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGh0SYfqXnY , CNET Highlights

Spending 100 Days in the Metaverse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mufeRQYgqZc , https://www.youtube.com/c/trahan/videos

100 Days in Realistic Minecraft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHbKGR7N1iI , https://www.youtube.com/c/trahan/videos

https://www.xrtoday.com/virtual-reality/gaming-in-the-metaverse-the-next-frontier/

To work and play in the Metaverse might be too much.

https://www.xrtoday.com/virtual-reality/metawork-working-the-9-5-in-the-metaverse/

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-02-07-the-future-of-games-is-far-more-than-the-metaverse-lets-talk-hyper-digital-reality

https://www.wired.com/story/video-games-ahead-of-metaverse/

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-02-07-the-future-of-games-is-far-more-than-the-metaverse-lets-talk-hyper-digital-reality

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=video+games

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVYrJJNdrEg

https://decrypt.co/199263/metaverse-zuckerberg-lex-fridman-future-ai-ultra-realistic-avatars

MZ sure is ready to take things to another level.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/27/meta-ceo-zuckerberg-looks-to-digital-assistants-ai-to-push-metaverse.html

https://www.laptopmag.com/news/live/meta-connect-2023

https://www.engadget.com/metas-metaverse-is-getting-an-ai-makeover-194004996.html

https://www.aitimejournal.com/how-ai-and-the-metaverse-work-together/

https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/how-ai-and-metaverse-are-shaping-the-future/

Noam Chomsky on AI, Neural Networks, and the Future of Linguistics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkRft71_JrY

NOAM CHOMSKY - THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axuGfh4UR9Q

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/ai-makes-rules-for-the-metaverse-even-more-important/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2023/04/14/the-metaverse-and-ai-a-powerful-combination-for-business-growth-and-innovation/?sh=5586bd969a10

https://www.news.viverse.com/post/ai-and-the-metaverse-what-you-should-know

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/05/generative-ai-and-how-can-it-shape-the-metaverse-industry-experts-explain/

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Meta

Is The Metaverse Land Rush an Illusion?

 https://www.wired.com/story/metaverse-land-rush-illusion

What if this world is already part of someone else's MV?

Tim Dillon Tries to Sell Joe on the Metaverse

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUZvW3f-uzQ

https://venturebeat.com/2021/12/26/how-ai-vr-ar-5g-and-blockchain-may-converge-to-power-the-metaverse/

https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/cryptocurrency/articles/why-ark-invests-cathy-wood-thinks-the-metaverse-will-be-worth-trillions/

https://bernardmarr.com/metaverse-vs-multiverse-whats-the-difference

https://www.theverge.com/22744724/metaverse-multiverse-entertainment-future-fortnite

https://www.xrtoday.com/mixed-reality/xr-predictions-2022-virtual-and-augmented-reality-in-the-future-of-work/

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Metaverse

The metaverse explained: Everything you need to know

 https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/The-metaverse-explained-Everything-you-need-to-know

School and Business, fun and games...

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/06/30/the-metaverse-in-2040

https://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahlovich/2022/05/11/what-is-the-metaverse-and-why-should-you-care/?sh=17f3aa5c2704

https://hbr.org/2022/07/exploring-the-metaverse

https://www.matthewball.vc/all/themetaverse

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4472812-what-is-metaverse

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+metaverse

McDonald's Plans for life the Metaverse...

"The fast-food company filed 10 trademarks for usage in the virtual world." https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/417977

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10500769/McDonalds-files-trademark-restaurant-metaverse-sell-virtual-real-food.html

Unfortunately, all those extra calories can't just exist in the Metaverse.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-metaverse-virtual-online-restaurant-trademark-delivers-food-web3-nft-2022-2

https://www.forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/2022/02/09/mcdonalds-files-trademark-for-metaverse-based-virtual-restaurant/?sh=14434c966786

The_Thirteenth_Floor is still a very good depiction of linking to a full immersion VR system. So much so that if you didn't realize that you are linked to a temporary sensory reality, you might actually think that you are in the real world. There is a timer that is set for a couple of hours so that a person won't starve to death and can return do some other "real world" things. Of course the ending of the movie implies that this world might be part of someones VR movie or Metaverse.

Trapped in the Metaverse... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtLTZUaMSDQ WSJ

The BEST VR Headset in the WORLD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOk_M1Ib5F0

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=food

Top Metaverse, Gaming, and NFT Projects to Watch in 2022

 https://www.techtimes.com/articles/269809/20211227/top-metaverse-gaming-and-nft-projects-to-watch-in-2022.htm

Of course the Metaverse will eventually become ubiquitous.

https://www.newsbtc.com/news/company/10-gaming-and-metaverse-projects-to-watch-in-2022

https://hackernoon.com/10-metaverse-projects-ill-be-watching-in-2022

https://www.historyofinformation.com/index.php?cat=35

https://www.xrtoday.com/mixed-reality/xr-predictions-2022-virtual-and-augmented-reality-in-the-future-of-work/

https://www.historyofinformation.com/index.php?cat=38

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Metaverse

Policing in the metaverse

 https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/publications/policing-in-metaverse-what-law-enforcement-needs-to-know

https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/Metaverse_Report.pdf

Some big challenges ahead in the+metaverse. 

https://aragonresearch.com/who-is-responsible-for-policing-a-metaverse/

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/kare11-sunrise/metaverse-online-crimes-avatar/89-d1945bda-a777-4757-ba67-d11dc9087c5c

https://thelaundrynews.com/the-1000-chinese-spacex-engineers-who-never-existed-linkedin-users-are-being-scammed-of-millions-of-dollars-by-fake-connections/

https://fortune.com/2022/08/26/meta-metaverse-mark-zuckerberg-joe-rogan-healthy/?queryly=related_article

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mark+Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg thinks the metaverse will be ‘a lot healthier for us.’ History suggests he’s wrong

 https://fortune.com/2022/08/26/meta-metaverse-mark-zuckerberg-joe-rogan-healthy/?queryly=related_article

The Metaverse has so much potential and a potential for some various problems.

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-the-metaverse

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+metaverse

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mark+Zuckerberg

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Meta

Meta-Mark

Digital Dreams...

 "The Ghost Inside" by Broken Bells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVxTsXRjNTw , https://www.youtube.com/c/brokenbellsmusic/videos

This is such a classic song and video from 2010. An android perusing a digital dream of a former existence that has just become a faded memory on a barren world. 

"We Appreciate Power" by Grimes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYG_4vJ4qNA , https://www.youtube.com/c/grimes/videos

In 2018, Grimes wrote and produced a song and video about being fully immersed into something like the Metaverse.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse#Current_implementations

https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-metaverse-internet-consolidation-business

"Future Baby" by Die Antwoord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi8gfetK1og , https://www.youtube.com/user/ZEFRECORDZ/videos

Just another wild Sci-Fi video from, Die_Antwoord.

120 minutes of VR...

The Thirteenth Floor (1999) -- Ending and Partial Credits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lom15dSQdNA

The Cardigans - Erase / Rewind “Director's Cut” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WOYnv59Bi8 , https://www.youtube.com/user/TheCardigansVEVO/videos

From The Thirteenth_Floor to the Nth_Floor. 

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/18/how-to-build-the-matrix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_world#In_fiction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderland_(2021_film)

https://www.wired.com/story/future-of-reality-matrix-opener

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Resurrections

It all leads into the Metaverse VR realm.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Metaverse

The Metaverse intersection

 https://www.fastcompany.com/90660612/facebook-metaverse A digital alternate reality for people to work and play in.

https://scroll.in/article/1001698/mark-zuckerberg-wants-to-reinvent-facebook-as-a-metaverse-company-heres-what-it-means

https://www.theverge.com/22588022/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-ceo-metaverse-interview

FB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHGbWn6iwHw

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+metaverse

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mark+Zuckerberg

What’s really behind Facebook’s rebrand to Meta?

 https://www.retailwire.com/discussion/whats-really-behind-facebooks-rebrand-to-meta

This is a big step for FB and Mark+Zuckerberg, indeed.

https://www.theverge.com/22749919/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-meta-company-rebrand

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/051815/top-11-companies-owned-facebook.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms#Revenue

Of course AR and VR tech is the way of the future.

https://www.theverge.com/22752986/meta-facebook-andrew-bosworth-interview-metaverse-vr-ar

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/11/update-on-use-of-face-recognition

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/04/oculus-gaming-showcase/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/02/meta-parallel-metaverses-facebook-name-change-challenged

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse

https://carrus.io/5-key-differences-between-working-at-google-and-facebook

FB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHGbWn6iwHw

https://www.retailwire.com/discussion/is-retail-ready-to-enter-the-metaverse

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Meta

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+metaverse 

The Metaverse Is Coming: We May Already Be in It

 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-metaverse-is-coming-we-may-already-be-in-it

Not everyone will notice things that will get them to consider that they might already be in someones constructed reality.

https://hackernoon.com/metaverse-imaginaries-sci-fi-vignette-1-the-future-of-work-land-investing-in-the-metaverse

Fortunately, there are some very curious people like Rizwan+Virk that have noticed several peculiar things about The Nature Of Reality. (TNOR)

Metaverse Imaginaries Vignette #2: A Day in the Life of an Engineer, AI , AR and VR

 https://rizstanford.medium.com/metaverse-imaginaries-vignette-2-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-engineer-ai-ar-and-vr-685b06093ee7

https://medium.com/predict/metaverse-imaginaries-sci-fi-vignette-1-affa6e401b6d

What if the tech that surrounds you eventually engulfs you?

https://program-ace.medium.com/top-5-virtual-reality-trends-of-2022-the-future-of-vr-f44dd2bf8197

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+metaverse

Metaverse Game Development

 https://medium.com/@elenanielzen/metaverse-game-development-71357c66f654

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/free-download/game-creation-software

https://crustlab.com/blog/guide-to-metaverse-game-development/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

PwC Hong Kong purchases land plot in The Sandbox

 https://cointelegraph.com/news/pwc-hong-kong-purchases-land-plot-in-the-sandbox

https://cointelegraph.com/news/virtual-land-in-the-metaverse-dominated-nft-sales-over-past-week

There was a point when coins represented a very small portion of a kingdoms or nations wealth. Then eventually paper, fiber or plastic money became an extension of the presumed wealth of a nation. As digital transactions continued to grow over the decades, money became mostly within its own Virtual Reality. Its all become ones & zeros in banks and their computers.

https://cointelegraph.com/blockchain-for-beginners/how-does-blockchain-work-everything-there-is-to-know

https://cointelegraph.com/blockchain-for-beginners , https://cointelegraph.com/explained

https://cointelegraph.com/blockchain-for-beginners/what-is-metaverse-in-blockchain-a-beginners-guide-on-an-internet-enabled-virtual-world

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+metaverse

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg loses $71BILLION in one year - more than half his fortune

 https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-loses-28043030

Is this a variation of, the bigger they are, the harder they fall?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-net-worth-lost-70-billion-metaverse

https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/mark-zuckerbergs-net-worth-slashed-by-more-than-half-this-year

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/ceos/mark-zuckerberg-net-worth

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+metaverse

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mark+Zuckerberg

Facebook is losing users for the first time ever and shares in Meta have fallen off a cliff

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/02/03/facebook-users-decline-meta-stock/6651329001/

The $200-billion-wipeout-among-the-worst-in-market-history.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60255088

Sometimes the very big ones can fall pretty hard.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stock-market-down-meta-facebook-earnings/

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/meta-stock-plummets-after-earningscan-company-salvage-any-growth-out-of-facebook-platform-11643896586

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/02/03/facebook-meta-stock-falls-stock-market-dow/6656532001

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-owner-metas-stock-price-plunges-premarket-jolting-tech-investors-11643887542

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-blames-apple-10-billion-loss-ad-privacy-warning-2022-2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse#Criticism_and_concerns

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+metaverse 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Meta

The Challenges and Future Possibilities of AI and Virtual Reality

 https://bernardmarr.com/what-are-the-challenges-and-future-possibilities-of-virtual-reality

AI & VR will eventually become very intertwined.

https://www.xrtoday.com/virtual-reality/why-do-ai-and-vr-go-together-so-well/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/01/06/tech-experts-predict-13-areas-ai-and-vr-are-set-to-revolutionize/?sh=9448c8a25b02

https://www.xrtoday.com/mixed-reality/xr-predictions-2022-virtual-and-augmented-reality-in-the-future-of-work/

https://www.xrtoday.com/virtual-reality/why-are-photographic-avatars-vital-for-work-in-the-metaverse/

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=VR

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+metaverse

What happens when Digital People Populate the Metaverse?

 https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/artificial-intelligence-digital-people-avatars.html

The Metaverse is an interactive digital playground. If you are essentially interacting with cartoon avatar characters, then you know that you are just temporarily interacting with something in between the environment of a game or a simulation.

However, if you are temporarily mentally merged into something like the MATRIX or the 13th Floor, but without any awareness of the "real world", then that photo-realistic or interactive simulation will be your only frame of reference. Thus, you had better set the VR timer for only 1 or 2 hours. If it's more than a few hours, you might start to get hungry or have to go to the bathroom...

Of course if you have this all taken care of because you are in a full immersion pod, then you are already in your own version of the MATRIX.

In the first Avatar movie, people got to see a depiction of how a person was linked to a modified version of themselves adapted to look like humanoid beings on another planet. You are still you, but you have this full immersion haptic bodysuit, grown to just the right specifications. 

How Does the concept of Quantum Leap work? The time traveler temporarily takes over the body of a person in their past. The person's body in the past temporarily becomes a haptic suit for the time traveler. The original version of QL could have made this more easy to understand, but the general premise was there.

If time travel could ever be proven to be possible, would that imply that this world is part of a cosmic interactive recording and projection? IE, a simulation of sorts.

What happens if a dangerous sentient digital character gets out into the real world? That's the premise of the 1995 movie Virtuosity.

"In Los Angeles, Lt. Parker Barnes and John Donovan are testing a virtual reality system that is going to be used for training police officers. The two are tracking down a serial killer named SID 6.7 at a restaurant in virtual reality. SID (short for Sadistic, Intelligent, Dangerous, a VR amalgam of the most violent serial killers throughout history) causes Donovan to go into shock, killing him." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuosity#Plot