It’s early in the morning a week before Christmas 2021, and I’m thinking about what I have accomplished and wondering what to do next?
Should I continue writing this? Will anyone every read it? Does it really matter? Doubts, questions, I tend to get like this before I set any new course heading, hesitant to decide, because there are so many possibilities, which ones to choose?
https://michael-mcanally.medium.com/the-metaverse-buzz-i-have-no-answers-only-questions-c5bb490ab138
Recently I completed one of my most impactful articles on the “Metaverse”, the new buzz word of the present. I was able to transfer a lot of the work I had done in WebXR coding and writing to a Raspberry Pi, a small maker board for projects, learning, and experimentation. It may actually be a first, in the specific way I configured and set it up a low cost server using WebXR from the home network directly to a VR Headset, in this case my older Oculus Quest 2.
It’s one of my longest articles and took way over a month and a half to actual complete, testing and promote on the internet. Really hope it catches on, because I believe it combines the potential for WebXR with IoT, and edge AI capabilities in a Maker Community format. It certainly gives me lots of ideas for future projects to write about. The article and images from it are below. It received over 805 + 160 = 965 views in a weeks time, which is really not bad for doing your own publishing, and marketing. I’m sure it had something to do with the keywords, Metaverse, and Raspberry Pi in the title. I had to break it into two articles, because it was so long, and the page loaded slowly on a Pi.