From Mole Manor to the Metaverse

Matthew Ball’s audiobook The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything on Libby.com .

In one chapter, Ball delves into the complexities of designing realistic 3D avatars and their interactions within virtual environments.

This discussion of avatar complexity reminded him of his first encounter with virtual worlds, long before he had ever heard of the Metaverse.

Virtual world can only sustain immersion if every object behaves in a way that makes sense.

People suspend disbelief in fictional worlds only when those worlds follow predictable rules.

A single player game can control every aspect of its world, but a persistent shared Metaverse must synchronize logic across millions of users in real time.

The balloon switching hands was not only an animation glitch or a pause in the immersion, it was proof that my identity in the game was not truly mine.

The challenge of the Metaverse is not just making better graphics, it is ensuring that reality never flickers. Not once, no one knows how to do that. Interoperability in virtual worlds must be persistent and interoperable, Ball argues.