A MetaMask Founding Architect Is Building an Interoperable ‘MetaMetaverse’

At a clip erstwhile the explanation of “the metaverse” is often dumbed down to acceptable the wide parameters of a firm selling strategy, MetaMask founding designer Joel Dietz is gathering retired the imaginativeness of a Web 3 purist.

The project, known arsenic MetaMetaverse, has brought Dietz retired of what helium called “crypto retirement,” a yearslong play wherever helium stepped distant from the abstraction aft gathering the ConsenSys-owned Ethereum wallet arsenic a portion of its archetypal dev team.

Now he’s been lured backmost by the caller ambitions of the space, and a conception of the metaverse that reminds him of the aboriginal days of gathering Web 3.

“It’s adjacent a consciousness of idiosyncratic responsibility, to beryllium moving connected this,” Dietz told CoinDesk successful an interview. “A batch of aboriginal Ethereum radical had this precise utopian imaginativeness for what the net could be, and I don’t privation to accidental they got distracted, but present with the metaverse it feels similar we’ve gotten backmost to that.”

What makes Dietz’s metaverse a “meta” metaverse (not to beryllium confused with Meta’s metaverse) is its absorption connected interoperability. The integer ecosystem allows users to physique projects connected its virtual onshore utilizing respective antithetic crippled engines, including Blender and Unreal Engine 5, utilized by Epic Games to tally “Fortnite.”

The MetaMetaverse besides comes attached to its ain Layer 1 blockchain, boasting a caller programming connection called “metametalang” that allows users to physique retired metaverse ambitions of their own.

Dietz’s metaverse itself is centered astir a coordinate strategy that maps experiences wrong the platform’s galore cubes, which users themselves tin fundamentally ain arsenic virtual land.

Inside the cubes are much cubes, and wrong them, much cubes. It creates what Dietz calls “the Alice successful Wonderland effect,” wherever abstraction tin beryllium embedded wrong itself, and users tin shrink themselves to acquisition it.

The programming connection tin beryllium utilized for “running games and simulations wrong of [the cubes], and mapping parallel realities,” each successful a natively cross-chain environment, according to a property release.

The level itself is inactive successful improvement and the squad has yet to denote its archetypal nationalist onshore merchantability for the archetypal “Mars” universe. Dietz envisions MetaMetaverse yet functioning arsenic a compliment to existing platforms similar Decentraland and The Sandbox, yet being a little restrictive and much interoperable canvas for developers to physique retired projects of their own.

“I’m a geek, I request to enactment connected things that are truly absorbing to me. And gathering a connection for the aboriginal of the metaverse that tin representation each realities, including parallel realities, I’d accidental that’s beauteous cool,” Dietz said. “And perchance precise profitable arsenic well.”

MetaMetaverse raised a $2 cardinal effect circular successful December 2021 backed by Polygon Studios, DAO Maker and Ghaf Capital.