The Metaverse is an idea that is running very slowly. Few developers are investing time to create worlds within it, so in the end we have an area that is too reminiscent of projects from ten years ago than the futuristic world of the Ready Player One style promised by the CEO of Facebook.
The fact is that there are several ways to contribute to the metaverse, to create mini-worlds that can interconnect with each other, and today I will tell you about one of them.
Its about Croquet’s Microverse World Buildera development environment for Open Metaverse that enables web and web3 developers to rapidly create multi-user 3D Metaverse worlds that can be published to any web server, completely independent of proprietary platforms.
Launched today, they want this tool for creators and developers to create shared experiences limited only by their imagination and JavaScript.
The goal is for programmers to partner with creators and creatives to use the web as a platform for conversation in virtual and augmented reality that can be published on any free web server of proprietary platforms.
With this new platform it is easy to create synchronized multi-user 3D virtual worlds. The platform already includes sample worlds, a flexible avatar system, support for most 3D objects, and connectors for external data systems.
JavaScript developers can extend functionality within worlds to create interactions not possible with other closed platforms.
It’s open source and available on github, so it can grow quite large.
They also have a channel on Discord to interact directly with the founders and engineering team, to get help or just to talk about the future of the Open Metaverse.
A quick way to start
The quickest way to get a feel for this platform is to visit a default world served from the Croquet site, available at https://croquet.io/microverse.
Once the world loads, we will navigate by dragging the joystick in the bottom center of the window. It’s newly generated private world, identified by the extended URL (with automatically added session ID and password) that now appears in the browser’s address bar.
To bring additional users into this world, we’ll load the extended URL in another browser tab or send the copied URL to a friend, for example.
