The Best Articles in Metaverse
The most useful articles and videos in Metaverse from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Metaverse Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Metaverse by Refind users in 2023 so far.
Videos
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Game Made for VR on a $1 Processor?
I document the process of making a multiplayer-cross-platform video game that has parts that run on everything from a tiny microcontroller to a high end VR s...
HYPER-REALITY on Vimeo
Hyper-Reality presents a provocative and kaleidoscopic new vision of the future, where physical and virtual realities have merged, and the city is saturated…
What is ...?
New to Metaverse? These articles make an excellent introduction.
What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?
The dream of an embodied future internet is back.
«The metaverse is bigger than any one service, except when it’s convenient to call that service the metaverse»
How to ...?
How to let a metaverse die
The death of beloved MMOs can teach us how to let go
«Dr. Boellstorff recommends a community space hosted on some third-party, like Discord, to stay connected to your friends. The virtual world may no longer exist, but the relationships you built there can live on.»
Trending
These links are currently making the rounds in Metaverse on Refind.
Fashion metaverse insights startup Geeiq raises $8.5 million
The series A funding will go towards hiring and expanding its work helping brands measure and improve the impact of virtual worlds and digital goods.
Exclusive: Inside Meta’s Horizon Worlds reboot
Horizon Worlds Super Rumble is the first Horizon game to feature much-improved graphics. Will it help the struggling metaverse social VR platform succeed?
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles in Metaverse—all under 10 minutes.
Steve Mann: My “Augmediated” Life
What I’ve learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear
“Forest bathing” might work in virtual reality too
Could electronic forests elicit the same physiological responses as real ones?
There Will Never Be Another Second Life
The virtual world, a strange cross between Burning Man and Neal Stephenson’s metaverse, marks its 20th anniversary with no true corporate competitor in sight.
Apple’s VisionOS Makes a Bold Leap in Computer Interface
We’ve come a long way from the command line. Now we’re being asked to take the next step in human-computer interaction, whether we’re ready or not.
Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision Pro
One takeaway: “It costs seven times more.”
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Metaverse.
First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS
In the same way that the introduction of multitouch with the iPhone removed a layer of conceptual abstraction — instead of touching a mouse or trackpad to move an on-screen pointer to an object on…
harnessing the magic, mitigating the danger
AR designers and creators are today’s magicians. Here’s what they need to know to re-enchant the world
Ways to think about a metaverse — Benedict Evans
Your boss wants a metaverse strategy, but what would that be, and what does metaverse even mean? If we strip away the noise, what can we say about this, and what can we predict?
Q&A: Why the Metaverse Needs to Be Open
Making virtual worlds as interconnected as the internet will be tough
«Online video games like Fortnite and Roblox are pitching themselves as precursors to the metaverse because of their large 3D environments where millions gather every day.»
Mark in the metaverse
An interview with the CEO about his most sci-fi speculation.
«“i don’t think that this is primarily about being engaged with the internet more. i think it’s about being engaged more naturally.”»
Thought Leaders
We monitor hundreds of thought leaders, influencers, and newsletters in Metaverse, including:
Benedict Evans
Trying to work out what's going on, and what happens next. Mostly tech.
Robert Scoble
Wrote two books about Spatial Computing before Apple announced its Spatial Computer, which is AI+AR. AI-First chief strategy officer @infiniteretina.
cdixon.eth
Programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups, crypto/web3. Author of Read Write Own (Random House, January 2024)
Road to VR
World’s leading independent news publication dedicated to the consumer VR industry. Founded 2011. Follow Executive Editor @benz145 and Editor @vrbosenet
Vi Hart
Mathemusician and Strategist. http://vihart.com she/they
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