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How Virtual Worlds Work, part two – Raph's Website

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Last week I wrote about the challenges of moving art between virtual worlds – especially the long-standing dream of moving avatars across wildly different worlds and experiences. Something I didn’t…

Last week I wrote about the challenges of moving art between virtual worlds – especially the long-standing dream of moving avatars across wildly different worlds and experiences. How Virtual Worlds Work 1: Clients, servers, and art 2: Maps 3: Object templates and instances 4: Object behaviors 5: Ownership Something I didn’t touch on is whether this is a dream you actually want . Chasing the wrong dreams There are a lot of things people assume they want out of a metaverse which don’t really hold up under close scrutiny. Do you really want to move your avatar between a fantasy world and a gritty

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