Visualise complex interacting flows of the resources that make a city work.
Visualise complex, intractible challenges that cause conflict in an attempt to elevate the conversation.
Empower everyday people to take responsible and appropriate action.
Visualise beautiful maps.
"Geospatial is not something we talk the most about. This is not the hottest topic when we talk about the metaverse, but it is going to be one of these foundational technologies."
Originally designed as a data model for metadata
Statements about resources in triples: subject–predicate–object.
Each of the three parts of the statement can be identified by a URI.
Simple, flexible data model with great expressive power to represent complex situations, relationships, and other things of interest,
While also being appropriately abstract.
From vendor data to metaverse renderings
RDF is a middle ground to allow vendors to do their job, not worry about the format of the data - police example.
New, more open, more intuitive ways to interconnect and collaborate
Training environment for people (e.g. Microsoft Hololens)
Training environment for robots and AI (e.g. AWS RoboMaker)
...
What is a "metaverse"?
Virtual and physical world combined, and the ability to move seamlessly between simulation, real, virtual and physical world(s)
Gaming, yes, but also commerce, experiences, a lot of 3D content, very large worlds, very high resolution worlds
Clickbait, hype
Web + movie + games + social media all mushed together in various ways
The foundations for ‘the metaverse’
I see this convergence happening between the gaming rendering, the simulation world, the retail virtual try-on world, the AR/VR world, and the movie rendering world.
It's a wholesale optimization of the computing infrastructure, which is why it's right to call the metaverse the next generation of the internet.
Open source, immersive, interactive, internet platform, based on a topographic, 3D low-poly geographical rendering of earth that allows geographically independent full participation in (remote work and) ecommerce.
Specifically thinking about the African context.
The playful internet
The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect—to help people work together―and not as a technical toy.
Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose.
Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others.
Freedom 3: The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
INCLUDING the design and artwork assets. 100% FREE.
4. E-commerce metaverse
commerce
Functionalities plus ecommerce.
Not self-hosted.
Aim for 100% Free. May end up (also) being a less free fork...
? Data ownership ?
CSIR Metaverse Project
Tools for enabling commerce inside the metaverse
A general metaverse where users can rent and customize space and conduct commerce by offering product or service offerings. All payments happen on a per-second bases, in a peer-to-peer manner, facilitated by non-custodial wallets.
Permissions are customized for merchant needs into smart contracts.
New project: June 2022. Scope to help with their vision.
Carel de Jager, M.Eng
Research Group Leader: DLT
Emerging Digital Technologies for 4IR (EDT4IR)
CSIR NextGen Enterprises and Institutions
South Africa
CdeJager1 at csir .co.za
A blockchain is NOT useful
when there is no disagreement,
for unique physical goods,
if only one party writes,
when parties trust each other,
when parties trust a central mediator, or
when parties trust authorities.
The balance between centralization and
decentralization needs to be revised.
Web3.0
Blockchain
A universal trust
Web3
Semantic web, Debian
Stability through collaboration
The alternative to redundancy: Subsidiarity
Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate level that is consistent with their resolution.
Free and open source is not only a piece of software
but it is also a process to build and license code in order to solve common shared problems such as infrastructure problems.
Free and open source software enhances trust in interoperability through transparency.
Fernando Almeida, José Oliveira and José Cruz, Open Standards And Open Source: Enabling Interoperability (2011)
DOI: 10.5121/ijsea.2011.2101
Web3 vs Web3.0: Who wins?
There is a huge amount of ideological shift, and learning you can do by just being in the space, in the beginning.
Technology can change your political outlook.
Danny O'Brian, Filecoin Foundation and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
How to evaluate if an initiative is legit?
Does it have a real use case relevant to you?
Are the people involved in the project involved in projects you trust - Relational data is important.
Good things take time, and good things stand the test of time, in a way.
