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Reading list topics for an informed metaverse discussion
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| # Metaverse reading list | |
| ## Society | |
| Standards collaboration and governance | |
| - Patents: protection, licensing | |
| - Brands and trademarks | |
| - Limited liability and warranty | |
| - Consensus, competition, and conflicting goals | |
| - Standards development processes | |
| - Standards distribution: open, private | |
| - Test and conformance suites | |
| - Implementations: reference, production | |
| - CGs, WGs, TAG, board | |
| - Meeting structure and leadership | |
| - Evolution and deprecation | |
| - Security monitoring and response | |
| Standards bodies | |
| - IETF: https://www.ietf.org/ | |
| - W3C: https://w3.org/ | |
| - WHAT-WG: https://whatwg.org/ | |
| - Khronos: https://www.khronos.org/ | |
| - OGC: https://www.ogc.org/ | |
| Alliances | |
| - Bytecode alliance: https://bytecodealliance.org/ | |
| - Open Web Docs: https://openwebdocs.org/ | |
| Web browser teams | |
| - Google Chrome | |
| - Apple Safari | |
| - Mozilla Firefox | |
| - Facebook Oculus Browser | |
| - Magic Leap Helio | |
| - Samsung Internet | |
| ... | |
| 3D game engine teams | |
| - Epic Unreal | |
| - Unity | |
| ... | |
| Ethical frameworks | |
| - Ethical Use of Spatial Data: https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/NOTE-responsible-use-spatial-20210119/ | |
| Ecological impact | |
| - Proof of work (mining) pollution | |
| - Rare minerals | |
| - Water scarcity | |
| International law | |
| - Collaboration | |
| - National censorship | |
| - Intellectual property: patents, copyright, trademarks, content encryption | |
| Social teams | |
| - Cheat response | |
| - Denial of service response | |
| - Brigades | |
| - Snoops: legal and illegal | |
| - Flagging | |
| - Moderation | |
| - Botnets | |
| - Misinformation | |
| - Scammers | |
| - Banning | |
| - Cornfield | |
| - Disemvowelment | |
| Identity frameworks | |
| - Names: legal, given, pseudonyms, antonyms, and anonymity | |
| - Reputation | |
| - Magic circles: FB account vs Oculus account vs Fortnite character | |
| - Body representation: Twins, projections | |
| Discovery and vetting teams: OS and manufacturer restrictions, vetting, and protection | |
| - Google Play Store team | |
| - Apple App Store team | |
| - Microsoft App Store team | |
| - Facebook Oculus Store and App Lab teams | |
| - Search engine policy teams | |
| Capitalism | |
| - Hypercorp capture of standards bodies | |
| - Hypercorp capture implementations (browser duopoly) | |
| - Currencies | |
| - [Micro]payments | |
| ## Creation (mostly TBD) | |
| Interaction design | |
| - Common patterns: hamburger menu, shield of power | |
| - Creator / consumer dichotomy: edit in situ, Croquet | |
| Graphics design | |
| Responsive design | |
| - Display modes: flat, portal, immersive | |
| - Control method: page, overlay, spatial | |
| - Input types: tracked hw, tracked bodies | |
| - Device variance | |
| - Body abilities | |
| - Network: lag, speed, transience | |
| - Wider Web: https://potassiumes.org/wider-web/ | |
| Animation | |
| - Motion capture | |
| - Timelines | |
| - Skeletons | |
| Meshes | |
| - Morphs | |
| - Weight maps | |
| ## Raw materials | |
| Trustworthy hardware | |
| - Conformance | |
| - Verification | |
| - Certification | |
| - Sealing: chips, [Betrusted](https://betrusted.io/) | |
| Authentication | |
| - SAML, OAuth, etc | |
| - UA auth: GAuth, Firefox accounts, MSFT accounts | |
| - Interconnects like Auth0 | |
| Permission management | |
| - In the user agent: [W3C Permissions](https://w3c.github.io/permissions/) | |
| - Among services | |
| - On the OS | |
| User agents | |
| - Trusted user interface: [W3C](https://www.w3.org/Security/wiki/Trusted_User_Interface), [sigil](https://blog.mozvr.com/the-design-of-firefox-reality/) | |
| - Fingerprinting | |
| - Sandboxing | |
| - Origins: cross-origin transclusion, [Security context UI](https://www.w3.org/TR/wsc-ui/) | |
| - OS integration | |
| - Decoupled engines: Stellar mesh | |
| Device-appropriate assets | |
| - LODs | |
| - [img srcset](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageElement/srcset) | |
| General transfer syntax | |
| - JSON and friends: OWL | |
| - XML and friends | |
| Flat content transfer syntax | |
| - Typography | |
| - Rasters and vectors | |
| - Color | |
| - Layout: CSS | |
| - Motion | |
| - Units | |
| Spatial content transfer syntax | |
| - glTF | |
| - FBX | |
| - OBJ | |
| - COLLADA | |
| - Pixar Universal Scene Description | |
| - Alembic Material Description Format | |
| Markup-oriented spatial all-in-one systems | |
| - A-frame | |
| - VRML | |
| - X3D | |
| Graphics languages / APIs | |
| - OpenGL | |
| - Metal | |
| - Vulcan | |
| - D3D | |
| - GLSL | |
| Scale | |
| - Proximity / horizon / frustum [un]loading | |
| - Unplanned partitioning, degradation, and saturation | |
| Simulation | |
| - Time: [OWL](https://www.w3.org/TR/owl-time/), | |
| - Space: geodetic datums (WGS84+lat/lon/alt) | |
| - Randomness | |
| - Units and quanta | |
| - Replication | |
| - Collisions | |
| - Chemistry | |
| - Fluid dynamics | |
| - Radiance: heat, light, etc | |
| Naming | |
| - Resouces: URI | |
| - Names: DNS | |
| - Selectors: CSS, XSLT | |
| - Postal addresses | |
| - Ownership parcel IDs: [Landgrid](https://landgrid.com/) | |
| Anchors: | |
| - [Azure Spatial Anchors](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/spatial-anchors/) | |
| - [ARCore Anchors](https://developers.google.com/ar/develop/developer-guides/anchors) | |
| - [ARKit Geo Anchors](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/argeoanchor) | |
| Logic | |
| - ECMAScript | |
| - packaging: npm/yarn, crates.io | |
| Accessibility | |
| - Timed text | |
| - Translators | |
| - Sensory overload | |
| - XR discomfort, XR legs | |
| - Visual: contrast, size, ... | |
| - Auditory | |
| - Neurodiversity | |
| Internationalization | |
| Encryption | |
| - DRM and controlled channels | |
| - Public / private key webs | |
| - Certs: authorities, UA-shipped certs, user-managed certs | |
| Network protocols | |
| - environment (GIS) streaming | |
| - A/V streaming | |
| - Thing streaming | |
| - Replication | |
| - Decentralization | |
| - Onion routing | |
| - National firewall traversal | |
| - Caching | |
| - Content Distribution Networks | |
| - Routing, interior: RIP, OSPF, GGP, HELLO, IGRP, EIGRP | |
| - Routing, exterior: BGP, EGP | |
| - Cellular: LTE, 5G | |
| - Local: LoRa | |
| - Internet: TCP / IP / UDP | |
| - Web: HTTPS / QUIC | |
| - Storate: NFS, IPFS | |
| Cluster topology | |
| - edge compute nodes: 5G | |
| Local capabilities access | |
| - Cameras | |
| - Light sensors | |
| - Light emitters | |
| - Microphones | |
| - Speakers | |
| - Motion sensors | |
| - GPUs | |
| - Body trackers: eyes, hands, head, facial expression, joints, and derived data like mood | |
| - File systems | |
| - Network interfaces: LAN, WAN, Bluetooth | |
| - Ports: serial, USB, MIDI | |
| - GPUs | |
| - Specialized chips: ML, FPGA, A/V codecs, encryption, randomness |
If you're here then you probably will also be interested in @M3-org's reading list: https://github.com/M3-org/awesome-metaverse
I did a bit of work to organize the sections and to start adding links.
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I wrote up this topic list as a part of this Twitter conversation: https://mobile.twitter.com/dankvr/status/1359217268408934401
Obviously, there's a lot more work to do on it. 🐱