Cool article, thanks for posting. For sure an AR metaverse is the future, a very bright future, with more new modes of work and possibilities of distributed wealth for all than we can even dream of.

A few things leap out from your excellent article about the AR metaverse; (a) there are so many players involved, and (b) it has been cooking for more than thirty years.

The truth is the relatively little progress which has been made on it to date has been in spite of our much longer standing economic system which continuously sabotages it, flaying players and organisations into ever more fragmented competing groups, playing the usual zero-sum IPO funded games of hiding IP, dreaming of conquering the world with centralised proprietary protocols and hardware, the ultimate profit making machine.

My simple answer to the question of who will (and must) own it all is “The people”, and it can only be a non-profit system. Anything less will not be a unified system, and only a unified system will deliver the benefits we hope for.

Having spent some time and effort working and researching in the same field with the non profit VRENAR project, I believe the end goal of a unified system will not happen until after something else happens, an economic system reset.

It looked for a time like AR metaverse technology itself could perhaps drive such an event, and maybe it still could, but it seems now much more likely that the economic event will have to come first, driven by other issues, like climate change, oil shortages, etc.

We live in interesting times.