List of awesome projects and information resources about the Metaverse. Since
there are many competing ideas about what the Metaverse is, feel free to leave feedback in the form of pull requests,
issues, and comments. You can also reach us through discord.
Somnium Space - Persistent blockchain based virtual world
NeosVR - Engine designed to accelerate the development of social VR applications
VRChat - Biggest social VR platform with UGC of worlds and avatars
Awesome VRChat - One-stop shop for people interested in developing
content for VRchat
Omniverse - Real-time simulation and collaboration platform
for 3D production pipelines
dot big bang - Web-based multiplayer UGC gaming platform with built-in tools and
Typescript scripting
Helios - Unreal Engine based UGC worlds, avatars and gaming platform
Horizon Worlds - Meta (previously Facebook) announcement video of The Metaverse
FrameVR - No-code creation of browser based virtual worlds
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
to one another in a real-time, persistent virtual world, without the need for sharding."
AltspaceVR - AltspaceVR is a leading platform for live events, artists, brands and businesses (RIP)
Hyperfy - webxr enabled platform that lets you own and build anything you can imagine
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
Work Adventure - collaborative virtual office web app presented as a 16-bit RPG video game,
open source
Avatar Providers
Ready Player Me - Cross-game Avatar Platform for the Metaverse
VRoid Hub - Platform for uploading humanoid VRM avatars
Cryptoavatars - Unique VRM avatars on the Ethereum blockchain
Mixamo - Easy tool to rig and animate characters, by Adobe
Booth.pm - Indie marketplace that contains many 3D avatar / world assets
Protocols and Standards
Layer 1
Bitcoin - Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money.
Ethereum - Ethereum is a technology that's home to digital money, global payments, and
applications.
Optimism - Optimism is a low-cost and lightning-fast Ethereum L2 blockchain
Metaverse Standards Forum - a new venue for cooperation between standards
organizations and companies to foster the development of interoperability standards for an open and inclusive
metaverse
Games & Virtual Worlds
Roblox - Massive online
multiplayer UGC gaming platform
Gala Games - Through decentralization, players not only own their in-games items, but
they have a voice in how the Gala Games roadmap develops.
📖 Neuromancer - (80s) Defined the Cyberpunk genre and the term Cyberspace
📖 Snow Crash - (90s) Coined the term Metaverse as a successor to the
Internet, author Neal Stephenson recently cofounded Lamina1.
📖 Ready Player One - (2011) Hit book that later became a Spielberg
movie
📖 Ready Player Two - (2020) Sequel to Ready
Player One
📖 Rainbows End - (2006) Increasingly digital/virtual world with
ubiquitous computing
📖 Idoru - Virtual celebrities and decentralized virtual worlds, Book #2 in Bridge
Trilogy
synthesia.io - Turn boring docs, PowerPoints, or PDFs into engaging
training, how-to or product marketing videos.
Movies
🎥The Matrix - When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a
forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil
cyber-intelligence.
🎥The Matrix Reloaded - Freedom fighters Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to
lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the
systematic forces of repression and exploitation.
🎥The Matrix Revolutions - The human city of Zion defends itself against the
massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent
Smith.
🎥The Matrix Resurrections - Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday
life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson
will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.
🎥The Thirteenth Floor - A computer scientist running a virtual reality
simulation of 1937 becomes the primary suspect when his colleague and mentor is murdered.
🎥eXistenZ - A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest
virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
🎥Free Guy - A bank teller discovers that he's actually an NPC inside a brutal,
open world video game.
🎥Tron - A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to
participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.
🎥Tron: Legacy - The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his
father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a
unique ally who was born inside the digital world.
🎥Wreck-It Ralph - A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to
fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.
🎥Ralph Breaks the Internet - Six years after the events of "Wreck-It Ralph,"
Ralph and Vanellope, now friends, discover a wi-fi router in their arcade, leading them into a new adventure.
🎥Wreck-It Ralph 2 - Based off Ralph Breaks the Internet, experience the
cooperative virtual reality adventure as you help Ralph and Venellope escape a security program who erases every type
of virus.
🎥Ready Player One - When the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS
dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his
fortune and control of his world.
🎥Black Mirror (USS Callister & San Junipero
in particular) - An anthology series exploring a twisted, high-tech multiverse where humanity's greatest innovations
and darkest instincts collide.
🎥Upload - A man is able to choose his own afterlife after his untimely death,
by having his consciousness uploaded into a virtual world. As he gets used to his new life and befriends his angel (
real world handler), questions about his death arise.
🎥Inception - A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of
dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past
may doom the project and his team to disaster.
🎥Surrogates - Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and
interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to
investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
🎥Total Recall - A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is
a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would
like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.
IPSME - Dr. Kim Nevelsteen - Idempotent Publish/Subscribe Messaging Environment (IPSME)
can be used for both client-side and server-side interoperability, or between blockchains; systems can be integrated
without being taken down and re-engineered; avoids the need for standardization and supports legacy systems; and,
reduces the complexity of integrating systems
Awesome Metaverse
List of awesome projects and information resources about the Metaverse. Since there are many competing ideas about what the Metaverse is, feel free to leave feedback in the form of pull requests, issues, and comments. You can also reach us through discord.
Contents
Contributing
Table of Contents
WebXR
Social VR
Open Source Frameworks
🟣 Hubs - Multi-user virtual spaces in WebXR, made by Mozilla.
Hubs Creator Labs - Inspiration, creativity and knowledge that transcends Hubs.
⚫
High Fidelity- Open source VR software platform. (Deprecated)🟠 Vircadia - Community maintained fork of High Fidelity.
⚫
Tivoli Cloud- Open source fork of High Fidelity.🟠 Decentraland - A blockchain-based virtual world (not VR yet).
🟢 Webaverse - 100% open source web based metaverse / game engine.
Open Source Tools
Commercial Frameworks & Tools
AltspaceVR- AltspaceVR is a leading platform for live events, artists, brands and businesses (RIP)2D Platforms
Avatar Providers
Protocols and Standards
Layer 1
File-Sharing & Content Delivery
Non-Fungible Tokens
Soulbound Tokens
Others
Games & Virtual Worlds
Books
Sci-Fi
📖 Neuromancer - (80s) Defined the Cyberpunk genre and the term Cyberspace
📖 Snow Crash - (90s) Coined the term Metaverse as a successor to the Internet, author Neal Stephenson recently cofounded Lamina1.
📖 Ready Player One - (2011) Hit book that later became a Spielberg movie
📖 Ready Player Two - (2020) Sequel to Ready Player One
📖 Rainbows End - (2006) Increasingly digital/virtual world with ubiquitous computing
📖 Idoru - Virtual celebrities and decentralized virtual worlds, Book #2 in Bridge Trilogy
Non-fiction
📖 The Spatial Web - How web 3.0 will connect humans, machines and AI to transform the world
📖 The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything - Upcoming book by Matthew Ball
📖 Step Into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy - Mark van Rijmenam
Media
Content Generation
Movies
🎥The Matrix - When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
🎥The Matrix Reloaded - Freedom fighters Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the systematic forces of repression and exploitation.
🎥The Matrix Revolutions - The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
🎥The Matrix Resurrections - Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.
🎥The Thirteenth Floor - A computer scientist running a virtual reality simulation of 1937 becomes the primary suspect when his colleague and mentor is murdered.
🎥eXistenZ - A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
🎥Free Guy - A bank teller discovers that he's actually an NPC inside a brutal, open world video game.
🎥Tron - A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.
🎥Tron: Legacy - The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.
🎥Wreck-It Ralph - A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.
🎥Ralph Breaks the Internet - Six years after the events of "Wreck-It Ralph," Ralph and Vanellope, now friends, discover a wi-fi router in their arcade, leading them into a new adventure.
🎥Wreck-It Ralph 2 - Based off Ralph Breaks the Internet, experience the cooperative virtual reality adventure as you help Ralph and Venellope escape a security program who erases every type of virus.
🎥Ready Player One - When the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune and control of his world.
🎥Black Mirror (USS Callister & San Junipero in particular) - An anthology series exploring a twisted, high-tech multiverse where humanity's greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.
🎥Upload - A man is able to choose his own afterlife after his untimely death, by having his consciousness uploaded into a virtual world. As he gets used to his new life and befriends his angel ( real world handler), questions about his death arise.
🎥Inception - A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.
🎥Surrogates - Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
🎥Total Recall - A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.
Articles and Blogs
Crypto
White Papers
Links