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admin 27 September 2022

I just finished my book "Social VR for the Metaverse with A-Frame WebXR" on September 14, 2022.  I spent the last few weeks recovering my energies and posting about it.

I did get some nice reviews. The things I have learned are interesting . . .  The intent of the book was to bring more people into an understanding of WebXR, A-Frame, the potential of the Metaverse, Social VR, etc.  Imagine the climate change implications if people could spacially interact and meet each other from anywhere on the planet (even their sofas).  The savings on energy use and a significant negative carbon foot print would be huge.  Don't take a plane, train or auto, take a VR headset there for total immersion!

Finally, someone asked me how to make money building a Open-source Metaverse?

Here is my answer.  

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Excellent question! It’s open-source, and the fact there is no pay wall, login system, avatar creation and customization and building system, all pretty much required, you would need those to begin making money. Examples of those making money would be Hubs, Frame, Meta, training is another way, I mention art work and galleries, museums, etc… Admittedly, it’s early days, and I’m sure with crypto and other technologies ultimately money can be made. But just like any business which attracts and captures customers, marketing and support are also required as well as metaverse infrastructure. I hope that answers your question some. If not, you could always try building a game, but the competition is fierce in that arena too and is usually done by teams of people these days! I think ultimately just having this skill-set will mean you can eventually, or even right now begin to make money as an independent contractor/consultant, I just wouldn’t quit my day job just yet… And finally I hate to say it, but build it and they will come?

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The answer is long, but it illustrates the difficulty of making money with the metaverse at this time.  Traffic to a site is important, stickiness in repeat visitation, I assume ads inside VR is probably how to make money in the short term...

For me, I have some ideas, such as becoming a virtual reality artist or studying AI, or finally writing a complete science fiction.  Maybe even combining these ideas, who knows?  Because, I don't right now.  And that's ok, I have made my contributions.

 

 

 

 

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