In episode 2, Ryan and Azeem decided to do something a bit different. Last week Ryan spoke a bit about how what we're doing is related to the metaverse, and as promised we wanted to deliver an in depth episode on exactly what that means because it's what we intend to build.

During this episode, Ryan references quite a lot of people and quite a lot of papers, articles, etc. If you’d like to dig deeper, he’s created a list of links for you to pursue at your own leisure.

Mark Weiser. The Computer for the 21st Century

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~corps/phaseii/Weiser-Computer21stCentury-SciAm.pdf

Kevin Kelly. Mirror Worlds

https://www.wired.com/story/mirrorworld-ar-next-big-tech-platform/

Vannevar Bush, As We May Think

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/

Ted Nelson, Project Xanadu and Hypertext

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon

Matthew Ball, Metaverse and Who Will Build It

Marc Andreessen, “Software is Eating the World”

https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world/

Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=ready+player+one&qid=1589828717&sr=8-2

Magic Leap

https://www.magicleap.com/en-us

Niantic Labs

https://nianticlabs.com

Improbable

https://improbable.io

6D.ai

https://www.6d.ai

How Close are we to achieving the Metaverse

https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/05/just-how-close-are-we-to-achieving-the-metaverse/

The Metaverse, Spatial Computing and 5G

https://www.lbbonline.com/news/the-metaverse-spatial-computing-and-5g