awesome-metaverse
Awesome metaverse projects
https://github.com/M3-org/awesome-metaverse
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Social VR
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Open Source Frameworks
- a-frame - JS framework for building 3D/AR/VR experiences
- JanusWeb - Web framework for building interconnected virtual reality
- Janus Guide - Learn to build open source self-hosted virtual worlds
- Exokit Avatar Component - Importing full IK avatars into aframe
- Integrating Augmented Reality Objects into the Real World with Light and Shadows
- High Fidelity - Open source VR software platform (Deprecated)
- Overte - community maintained open source fork of High Fidelity with VR support
- Decentraland - A blockchain-based virtual world (not VR yet)
- Webaverse - 100% open source web based metaverse / game engine
- Third Room - Open, decentralised, immersive worlds built on [Matrix](https://matrix.org/) protocol
- Croquet - A new web-based operating system that runs on any device
- Unavi - Open source web-based metaverse platform that supoprts VRM + glTF
- Ethereal Engine - Open source framework for building scalable realtime social apps
- Three Object Viewer (3OV) - Open Source WordPress plugin with WebXR and AI integrations
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Open Source Tools
- Hubs Blender Exporter
- Webaverse Blender Exporter
- Godot Blender Exporter
- Babylonjs Blender Exporter
- Polyhaven
- Sketchfab plugin
- Open Brush - Derivative made from the open source code of Tilt Brush
- Three.js editor - Web editor for [three.js](https://threejs.org/)
- Spoke - Easily create custom 3D environments
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Commercial Frameworks & Tools
- Awesome VRChat - One-stop shop for people interested in developing
- Cryptovoxels - Virtual world owned by its users
- Somnium Space - Persistent blockchain based virtual world
- Roblox - Massive online
- dot big bang - Web-based multiplayer UGC gaming platform with built-in tools and
- Helios - Unreal Engine based UGC worlds, avatars and gaming platform
- FrameVR - No-code creation of browser based virtual worlds
- oncyber - Easy platform to display NFTs in a virtual world, built on threejs
- Monaverse - Mint and display 3D spaces in Unity webgl powered 3D worlds, VR support soon
- RP1 - An upcoming platform "that can synchronously connect hundreds of millions of users
- Hyperfy - webxr enabled platform that lets you own and build anything you can imagine
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2D Platforms
- Worldwide Web3 - Free to play interoperable MMORPG metaverse project on Ethereum, closed source
- Gather Town - Virtual office and event space, closed source
- Atlantis World - Web3 social metaverse platform, closed source
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Avatar Providers
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2D Platforms
- Mixamo - Easy tool to rig and animate characters, by Adobe
- Booth.pm - Indie marketplace that contains many 3D avatar / world assets
- Ready Player Me - Cross-game Avatar Platform for the Metaverse
- Cryptoavatars - Unique VRM avatars on the Ethereum blockchain
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Protocols and Standards
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2D Platforms
- Dat - a peer-to-peer protocol
- glTF - Runtime 3D asset delivery
- Ethereum - Decentralized world computer
- WebXR - Accessing VR/AR hardware on the web
- VRM - File format for 3D humanoid avatars
- Open Metaverse Interoperability group (OMI) - Working group for open protocols / standards
- Metaverse Standards Forum - a new venue for cooperation between standards
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Articles and Blogs
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Non-fiction
- Matthew Ball – The Future of Media: Movies, the Metaverse, and More
- The Metaverse by Matthew Ball - What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will
- Makers Guide to the Metaverse - 2015 article
- Metaverse Lab - Experiments with VR/AR, Neural Networks, and 3D Internet
- PUDDLES to OASIS - Wired article on connecting disparate
- A Multiverse, not the metaverse - 5 Part series on
- The library inside Minecraft and our future in the Metaverse
- WHAT IS THE METAVERSE, AND DO I HAVE TO CARE?
- Mark Zuckerberg Metaverse Interview
- The Metaverse is Everything - Article by
- The Seven Rules of the Metaverse - A
- Building the Open Metaverse Podcast - Hosted by Patrick
- IPSME - Dr. Kim Nevelsteen - Idempotent Publish/Subscribe Messaging Environment (IPSME)
- How the Open Metaverse Will Transform Our Online Identities
- Building the Metaverse with janusVR - From 2015 but still
- A Primer on the Metaverse
- Roblox believes user-generated content will bring us the Metaverse
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WebXR
- Awesome WebVR - Curated list of awesome WebVR packages and resources
- Exokit - WebXR meta-browsers, engines, avatar systems, and more
- Awesome WebXR 2
- WebXR Explainer - What is WebXR and what are the
- Exokit Web - The web metaverse engine
- Exokit Web 2 - Make the API simpler and easier to understand
- Awesome WebXR - Compilation of links for WebXR demos, frameworks, editors
- Zesty Market - A marketplace for rentable NFT banner spaces in XR
- Web3XR - Site explaining the intersection of Web3 and WebXR technologies, WIP
- Glitch WebXR tutorials - Editable templates and guides for making your own WebXR sites
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Links
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Non-fiction
- **M3-org Research** - Community for builders and makers of the open metaverse
- urn-namespaces - A common identifier for assets across the
- MetaShortcutFormat - Spec to dynamically generate rich
- Anarchy Arcade - Advanced 3D desktop and shortcut launcher built on Source engine
- Metaverse Standards Overview (2014)
- Tim Sweeney at SIGGRAPH 2019
- Solipsis - Toward a Peer-to-Peer Shared Virtual
- Solipsis Presentation
- 3D Virtual Worlds and the Metaverse - Current
- Metaverse Reading List - Topics for informed
- Raph Koster's Website - Industry veteran that has been
- M3 dev logs - Metaverse interoperability projects and experiments from M3 / jin
- dankvr
- AngellXR - A Metaverse Incubation Community championing interoperability and collaboration.
- XRShowcase - A fun collection of web-based XR experiences.
- The Design of Virtual and Augmented Reality
- Emergent web metaverse - Looking at the web's
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Books
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Sci-Fi
- Neuromancer - (80s) Defined the Cyberpunk genre and the term Cyberspace
- **Snow Crash** - (90s) Coined the term Metaverse as a successor to the
- Lamina1
- Ready Player One - (2011) Hit book that later became a Spielberg
- Ready Player Two - (2020) Sequel to Ready
- Rainbows End - (2006) Increasingly digital/virtual world with
- Idoru - Virtual celebrities and decentralized virtual worlds, Book #2 in Bridge
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Non-fiction
- The Spatial Web - How web 3.0 will
- The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything
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Crypto
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Non-fiction
- Into the Void: Where Crypto Meets The Metaverse - Piers
- The Open Metaverse OS - Exploration & framework for how
- Larping Ethereum
- The Virtual Economy - Stunning wbesite presentation about the intersection of
- Zima Red - NFTs, Virtual Worlds, Blockchain Games
- The Great Online Game - Blog post about the multiplayer meta game
- A Primer on VR & the Blockchain
- CC0 Compendium - curated selection of
- 7 Essential Ingredients of a Metaverse - Article by a16z
- Metaversal | Bankless - a top newsletter about crypto and metaverse by William
- CC0 Compendium - curated selection of
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White Papers
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