Herman Narula
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Co-founder & CEO of @Improbableio and @MSquared_io . Author of #VirtualSociety
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Wrote a book aiming to provide a theoretical framework for the Metaverse, how it creates value, why the concept isn’t really about video games and how it can transform our society with a ‘fulfilment economy’. Check it out!
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Leak time: So there have been some major upgrades to the backend of our
@MSquared_io
technology. This is little candid clip of more than 20,000 CCU in a dense location. Many caveats and details in thread:
@RJFWhite
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As promised: company Town Hall for
@Improbableio
with m2 tech, same as we are using for otherside. All art placeholder. Everyone can speak in game.
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The whole
@Improbableio
team is blown away by your reactions to
@OthersideMeta
first trip, everyone artists, engineers QA, designers, events team and more are getting emotional seeing how much you enjoyed it. Your tweets are all over our slack. Thank you!
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What do people think of
@ElrondNetwork
? curious to get views and experiences with the company or tech.
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Otherside is not a game it’s a platform. It is powered by M squared which is a network of platforms that all work together. If you own an otherdeed then as we add more worlds to m2 you get more potential people to come visit your content. It’s all stronger together.
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Improbable team war room looks ready for otherside! Incredible work so far from this dedicated group, very grateful for their commitment today behind the scenes.
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Wow. The ape energy is like fusion powered crack. I love it. What a positive bunch!
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As promised: m2 sneak peak clip now uploaded directly :)
@BoredElonMusk
@OthersideMeta
@Improbableio
all graphics placeholder, listen with headphones.
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Alright. I have another m2 clip to leak. This is a bit risque as this is prototypey. I'm a bit nervous to release it early but how about 250 retweets and I will.... by end of the day UK time. Deal, apes? Deal?
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I hope this doesn't offend anyone but ten years into helping companies build online games and meeting the good the bad and the ugly at
@Improbableio
we've noticed a few signs that are bad when evaluating a future MMO/Kickstarter/web3 games potential success.
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What did everyone think of the otherside test today, smooth? Better without fog?
#OthersideMeta
#Metaverse
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What if we did a collaboration with m2 and 10ktf where you could “forge” any nft collection into a dynamic nft that any m2 tech world would then imbue with in game properties. We could tie it into physics or our avatar system….
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Beniamin is one of the smartest people in web3 with a gift for shifting effortlessly from minute technical discussions to how the whole market fits together. Incredibly excited to join the team for X day. Seems like every metaverse builder will be there!
New paths, new tools, new worlds.
All about to be explored.
Had some remarkable conversations with
@HermanNarula
during the last period.
Great to welcome him at X Day Paris. 🔥
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Handling 15000 people simultaneously in a dense virtual environment requires … half a BILLION messages a second. What the team has achieved with m2 is vastly ahead of the closest competition. Nothing else is close today.
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In my view a genius move by
@yugalabs
was deciding to make otherside interoperate with every single world in
@MSquared_io
as we announce new partners every partner will make otherside even more valuable. This is the opposite of closed zero sum platforms in video games.
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Traditionally it takes several years before players can enter a complex online game. We are building the most technically sophisticated virtual world ever and rather than waiting years, we are letting you in after just a few months so that we can build and test it together.
First Trip is a day away! Voyagers, if you’re planning to attend the tech demo with
@Improbableio
tomorrow at 12pm ET, take a moment to review the important details and reminders in this 🧵
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I’m loving the reactions and positivity from the apes community. So excited to be building something for them!
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@GordonGoner
please let’s do this if we can fit it in.
Imagine the next ape fest, for the people that can't get into the IRL venue, will be held in
@OthersideMeta
🙏🏻 That would be so sick🔥
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We at
@Improbableio
are thrilled to be developing Otherside in partnership with
@yugalabs
and bringing it to the M2 metaverse network.
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Experiment: I’m gonna leak a behind the scenes clip of something cool you haven’t seen before if at least 100 people retweet this.
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Why can't a popular videogame just turn into a metaverse or be described as a metaverse?
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That’s a lot of voyagers. I think the ccu of the otherside load test currently beats the entire user base of decentraland. In one spot.
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I've been silent on tweets and yet desperate to leak things. Its been tough. Amazing progress on m2 tech, particularly tools for creators that I'm hoping we are allowed to share before the end of the year.
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Poll: would you be willing to sign an nda and become a tester for many different m2 worlds while getting some airdropped benefits. It’s not easy work but as we scale to big numbers we need reliable attendees
Hell yes.
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Pay me you bastard.
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Thank you all so much for our impromptu random fun event exploring the power of Metaverse markup language live and the coming capabilities of M2 seemed like we got 181 of you in there :) I'll post up the video for those that couldn't be there. Dance party was fun too, thanks for…
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Commercial rights alongside NFTs are SO powerful and have barely had that power unlocked. 10ktf is fascinating.
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Hard times make incredible companies. Those that survive this crypto ragnarok will be the giants of tomorrow.
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I’m super stoked for otherside part deux tonight and equally worried we are about to blow up the internet. Don’t think anyone has used these many gpus for one experience before ….
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Troubling to see the “anti NFT pledge” some companies are signing specifically call out play to earn as somehow immoral. Why shouldn’t players earn value for creating fun for others!
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Got a new thing to leak as part of next wave of tech. But it’s really really wild. Probably will leak it tonight…
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Just a reminder that
@MSquared_io
will only work with partners that agree to legally allow interoperability of key things like avatars between worlds. So every partner we announce is another addition of value to the network. This will be the only way to access the tech.
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I’ve said it before. It’s harsh and I will say it again: if somebody has sold you virtual land and not demonstrated the ability to put large numbers of people on that land. It is worthless. If they didn’t solve that problem early on, it’s very hard to solve later.
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Can we do custom avatars? Yes. Yes we can.
@CloakdDev
@HermanNarula
@MSquared_io
For rendering, we've written a custom skeletal mesh rendering engine that can handle every character having totally distinct animation states and be represented by thousands of different modular pieces - below is a demo using some example assets!
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Incredibly excited to announce that Major League Baseball is joining the
@MSquared_io
network with their new virtual ballpark and their first experimental experience for thousands of fans this Saturday.
@MLB
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Was told today we had to literally convince someone joining improbable that first trip was real and happened because apparently there is no way we got 4500 of you in one spot :)
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139,781,418 ops per second peak based on ccu of 7k ish for this event :) nowhere near max capacity but a healthy number of messages being processed!
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@OthersideMeta
excited to let people experience the world of otherside in first trip on July 16th! proud of the team
@Improbableio
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I'm not inclined to listen to media outlets about web3 that can't even correctly describe what an NFT is or think the blockchain is bitcoin.
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Okay. I probably need to get an NFT and then build a metaverse avatar for it. But…. Which…
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Next sunday the 21st
@RJFWhite
and me are going to be doing nothing in particular and you definitely shouldn’t be near a chrome browser with a decent connection on that day and even if we do something it probably won’t work and probably won’t have a special guest.
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The new pipeline of companies seeking to build metaverse experiences in the market is astounding. The desire for new experiences for brands and companies is a more important trend than if crypto assets go up or down.
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I think maybe we accidentally launched a persistent metaverse and didn’t tell anyone about it.
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The metaverse is not going to be built by zero sum Facebook style winner takes all business. It’s going to involve cooperation and compatibility, this needs a new mindset to inter company relationships. The metaverse is a network of value not just a virtual world.
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Player count is a useless metric because it can be gamed. Use the number of networked updates per second, that caps how rich the world can be. M2 does half a billion. This involves not only networking but also changes in rendering, bandwidth and more up and down the stack.
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M2 litepaper dropping tomorrow. Just a first version, 26 pages of 'lite' information on our plans :) would love feedback from folks. We are also soft inviting people to a discord, as this is the first time we've set up a community like this we are taking it slow. Will be speaking…
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How much more ccu can we do? With this new architecture, potentially significantly more. But I think this is a pretty awesome step up on the backend! Congrats to the
@Improbableio
team. Once again, this is just an early test of a system that should do over 2 billion ops.
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I believe this is already the highest ccu event in one spot with real humans in any game ever and looking smooth! Congratulations to the teams!
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The new system scales far beyond even our original tech, for perspective, a game of fortnite handles 10,000 ops/updates per second. The new tech can handle almost 2 billion a second. (previous limit around 1bn)
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So much other great stuff to leak. Need to think of how best to do so….
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Don’t make me say apes together strong. Don’t make me say it.
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Its extremely important to understand that an NFT is a not really a functional digital asset that can be be the basis of a new economy. Its an important first step but...
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So close to giving access to more devs... been a long time in the making. Great summary of the workflow here by DC.
@CryptoGarga
I really like this ape, he's quite the primate.
When I can make an AI-clone of myself that explains how to set up a banana-filled, lambo-flexing Bored Ape jungle metaverse in under 2 mins, you know the future has arrived..
👇 (SOUND ON🔊)
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Once again. That's not bots. That's not a caveated technical demo delivered shakily to a journalist in a back room. That's all real people actually participating in a single dense space. Lots of fakers in the Metaverse space.
We came, we saw, we made fart noises. Here, a look back at our unforgettable inaugural First Trip together. 4,620 players, 2,560 live-stream views, and Koda booty for DAYS. Can’t wait for the next one.
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Number 1: as I always say, DO NOT BELIEVE BOTS, wait for real players before getting excited, but we do use a very large scale simulated player infrastructure that spins up thousands of players. So this is stage one in testing that builds significant confidence.
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IMO : The core value of an ownable virtual object is its relationship to a great experience. If you cannot provide a great, differentiated experience, all else is dust or eventually dust by way of someone else’s money.
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Met someone in the real world randomly who said they just bought otherdeed. Told them I’m working on otherside. Spent entire rest of dinner avoiding spoilers. Gonna say I work in finance instead from now on.
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Presence vs immersion in the metaverse 🧵
#web3
#metaverse
Immersion is when you think the world is real. E.g pretty graphics of realistic faces. Immersion can be delightful but it is dramatically less important than presence in the metaverse.
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The merge is further evidence of the obvious reality: web3 will keep evolving while the arguments it’s detractors present will not.
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Thanks so much to everyone dming their excitement about the latest tech but a friendly reminder that I personally contributed 0 lines of code, all the work was done by the nearly 1k team at
@Improbableio
and they are chuffed at your response! So pls thank them!
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Instead of metaverse projects eating each others users and liquidity. The m2 project tries to create a model where they support each other. Like free trade in the real world. That’s the “big idea” beyond the tech, every world benefits from network growth. If we get it right.
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Traditional game studios will not make the metaverse. They will just make games. Interoperability, players sharing revenue and mass scale social are not things they want or value.
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If the metaverse is not mobile first. It’s going to involve several billion less people.
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Roblox, minecraft and fortnite are all phenomenal and successful games. But a closed platform will never be a metaverse the way a lake will never be an ocean. Without web3 we never make it to that ocean.
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@GordonGoner
@GordonGoner
,
@CryptoGarga
@VStrangeYUGA
and all the apes at
@yugalabs
are superstars. You guys are a dream to work with and have a vision we are profoundly excited to play a role in enabling. Here’s to the next step on the journey! Thank you for your trust.
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Maybe the m2 network needs a community owned “base” world so people can screw around with world builder and mml without needing to go via one the big metaverses….
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Open AI: “we must responsibly bring forth this technology.”
Stable Diffusion: “YOLO BABY OPEN SOURCE LETS START THE DISRUPTION”
Stable Diffusion is only 30 days old…
a MEGA THREAD 🧵 on its rapid rise.
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That wasn’t a reference to otherside. Muktiple m2 worlds in the works with many teams but all will add value to each other.
🚨 BREAKING: Next
@OthersideMeta
trip “coming in the next few weeks” -
@HermanNarula
Reported first by
@igorpogany
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It would be pretty easy to add M2 to a browser based crypto friendly minecraft competitor. Any credible teams want to build it, dm me :).
... We already made some progress for an internal hackathon and we'd happily partner to do it fast.
@RJFWhite
@MSquared_io
@Improbableio
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Whenever I see a games company "banning" NFT's to 'protect' us, I always think back to when we needed protection from the satanic influence of dungeons and dragons.
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Such an awesome community. Excited for what’s cooking.
Happening now at
#xDay
!
@HermanNarula
,
@Improbableio
Co-founder & CEO, joins
@beniaminmincu
and
@sergiubiris
for a deep dive into the future of the Metaverse.
📺
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Just to show the power of the M2 network. Everything you saw today was conceived and built yesterday by one person and organised by three of us on the weekend. If we can do it, hopefully you will be able to do so just as easily when the network is live.
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Remember this? The thing next Sunday will be dramatically worse and probably actually cause your computer to catch fire, So don’t come.
Today's experience that
@HermanNarula
and
@RJFWhite
put together was absolutely insane!
@MSquared_io
💥💥💥
I enjoyed it so much. Listen to the excitement! I also met so many incredible people there!!!
Lets goooooo
How did you enjoy it?
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Let’s see how well this tweet ages: the largest financial opportunity in the metaverse is sports.
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Aww yes. Finally. I wanted to do like five of these already. Sitting here all trigger happy. At last you guys get to see some of what we’ve been doing…
Voyagers, get ready to return to Otherside for 2nd Trip on March 25, 2023 (exact time TBA). Here’s what to expect 🧵
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Its actually *astounding* the scale of brand
@yugalabs
have built in this space in such a short time. The brand value of that company alone is so much more important than any outside commentators realise.
Gaming leads the
#metaverse
conversation on Twitter, and we’re happy to see many of our friends among the most talked about companies.
For more insights, read our full study, out next week.
#Metaversations
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Web3 companies pretend video games don’t already exist and forget all the lessons they’ve hard won while gaming companies pretend web3 communities are somehow not real and refuse to take them seriously.
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The metaverse will enable some jobs that cannot be automated because their value derives from the fact that another person is really there. The metaverse equivalent of “hand made”.
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When people describe every videogame, say call of duty or world of warcraft or fortnite as metaverses, the term loses all meaning. These are almost decade old products with pre existing business models in a very well understood industry with a very stable growth rate: Videogames
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It’s not a problem if VCs or investors fund the metaverse. It’s a problem if funding also results in total control and if creators and users have no say over rules. In my book I propose an alternative model that we are using for m2 called “the exchange”.
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The technology we test tonight will underpin every single m2 world and we have many more events planned for this year, soon you will get a chance to see more of the tools we will be opening up which are all based on open web based standards… and every world links together..
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🤔 🧐 🤔
BREAKING NEWS »
@CryptoGarga
is planning to hold an
@OthersideMeta
town hall from the Metaverse next week to talk all about Otherside
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We used mml to add a working gameboy into the world during the song creation test
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with the m2 network you can build an entire end to end metaverse with its own ugc etc like otherside OR you can just make metaverse events, games or items and publish them on a particular metaverse, with a high degree of portability between worlds for most content. Great for…
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Glad folks picked up on this! Otherside will interoperate with other metaverses connected to m2
Going through the
@OthersideMeta
litepaper. This is the most important part. Good move
@Improbableio
.
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People are seriously underestimating eth post merge. I feel as though the ethereum ecosystem is going to be very resilient.
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As I argue in Virtual Society: Crypto/web3 and networking are the foundational technology for the metaverse not VR, let us dig into why. 🧵
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If you give founders and vcs liquidity with tokenised assets BEFORE they ship a product then in effect you are making someone rich today for promising to succeed tomorrow. If they fail they are a still rich. This incentive structure makes clever people say stupid things.
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Okay. The boss has spoken. Lets do it.
@HermanNarula
For sure. There’s bound to be some hiccups with musician’s contracts and what we’ll be allowed to stream. But we’ll make it work. Ape Fest should be a digital + physical experience.
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Many folks don’t know that as well as working on the foundations of the metaverse with
@MSquared_io
our team of almost a thousand devs at
@Improbableio
also provide multiplayer expertise to over sixty top games publishers including many well known games.
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If the community really wants us to do that kind of informal thing weekly and backs a proposal we are all for it.
The experience that
@HermanNarula
and
@RJFWhite
spun up this morning was nothing short of incredible. I know Herman's dms are blown, but if you all could help get some eyes on this I promise it will be worth it!
@OTHERspaceFM
@GratefulApe_eth
@apecoin
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1/10 In some quarters folks are simultaneously outraged by the possibility of the Metaverse while also openly unclear on what it is... It's a curious phenomenon for something to be so triggering and worthy of some analysis....
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We are now sending out advance copies of “virtual society” to select folks who can get the word out! I’m also looking for a team to collaborate with on a simple nft project around the book. If you think you can help in either area please dm me!
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The nft projects which make it through this winter are going to be those which can show how they will translate a great community into tangible metaverse experiences. That’s going to require a different set of skills than generally exist in web3.
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