Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Embracing the metaverse: Roblox’s ambitious vision for building online worlds

Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

A metaverse is "a persistent online world that offers participants a wide range of experiences and avenues for self-expression." This article is focused on Roblox, though there are others - Minecraft, Fortnite, No Man's Sky - that attract loyal and persistent communities. "The metaverse is inherently a social place. It's this shared experience. So your identity becomes important. This ability to be able to have social interactions and maintain and actually make friendships becomes super important. What the internet is for information, the metaverse is going to do for social connections."

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