Open Metaverse Summit @ Open Source Summit North America 2023
2023-05-10..2023-05-12
Vancouver, Canada
as the organisers put it
Discover the power of open source in the Metaverse. Join the world’s leading developers and innovators for an unforgettable experience of learning, collaboration, and exploration at Open Metaverse…
who it's for
open source developers, real-time communications engineers, identity engineers, blockchain engineers, cloud and edge engineers, security engineers, product managers
topics
generative AI for avatars; NeRF-based scene capture; libwebrtc-based SFU architecture; selective disclosure SD-JWT wallets; verifiable credentials with ZKPs; software bill of materials for metaverse; low-latency edge placement for VR; cross-chain token rails and payouts; volumetric capture and 3D asset delivery; federated cloud rendering and digital twins; network tuning for realtime XR
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Synthetic Reality: How Artificial Intelligence will Shape the Metaverse and Everything.. | Matt White | 52m |
Argues that AI will underlie the metaverse, powering generative AI for avatars, text-to-world and 3D asset creation (Midjourney v5, DreamFusion/Stable… | ||
| Trademarks in the Metaverse: New Opportunities and Challenges | Daniel Scales | 49m |
Explains how U.S. trademark rules, the Nice classification and the EUIPO/USPTO guidance clash over virtual goods, using Birkin virtual handbag litigation and a… | ||
| Enhancing the Utility in the Metaverse Using Open Technology | Uchi Uchibeke | 22m |
Claim: connecting crypto to traditional rails increases real-world utility and inclusion by making tokens spendable. Built an open protocol called UnitSpend… | ||
| An Open Source, Cross-platform Communications Layer for the Metaverse | Russell Dsa | 53m |
LiveKit provides a concrete stack: a custom libwebrtc distribution plus a shared Rust core and platform SDKs (Unity, iOS, Android, React) that reduce… | ||
| OpenWallet and Opportunities in the Metaverse | Wenjing Chu | 35m |
OpenWallet Foundation launches in February and is ~3 months old with roughly 50 members, an active GitHub showing two new project proposals for selective… | ||
| Online Identity with Verifiable Credentials and ZKPs Using High School Math | Stephen Curran | 49m |
Hyperledger AnonCreds implements verifiable credentials with zero‑knowledge proofs using only high‑school math, enabling selective disclosure (prove age… | ||
| (Averting) Dystopia: Learning from the Current Metaverse Citizens to Prevent Disaster | Layl Bongers | 47m |
Argues that current metaverse already exists in creator communities and gives concrete case studies: Minecraft modding ecosystem (Quilt, Modprints) powering… | ||
| Inferencing Big Data with AI and Machine Learning in Metaverse | Gautam Siwach | 34m |
Claims realtime inferencing of metaverse data using standard ML techniques plus specialized infrastructure, with experiments that remove duplicates to find 18… | ||
| How to Benefit from SBOM in Metaverse Applications | Karen Bennet | 49m |
Convergence of metaverse and AI requires SBOMs that record not just code but AI profile and dataset profile, hardware (AR/VR goggles, LIDAR, heart‑rate… | ||
| Metaverse: Open Source Foundation for the Evolution of Our Digital World | David Treat | 35m |
Claim: the metaverse is a continuum combining spatial AR/VR plus tokenized identity money and objects to let digital things move between places. Evidence: >50%… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Let’s Get Real - Life in the Fast Lane of the Metaverse | Matt White, Layl Bongers, Royal O'Brien, James Hursthouse | 54m |
Panelists describe real deployments and gaps: a high‑resolution volumetric capture pipeline already replaces crowd shoots (volumetric capture used for every… | ||
| Going to the Metaverse? Tune up Your Network and Edge Infrastructure | Ranny Haiby | 24m |
Metaverse workloads force latency under 10 ms ( ≈600 miles max), with VR at 7–15 ms and tactile at 1 ms; VR needs ~250 Mbps, holograms demand terabits/sec… | ||
| The Metaverse from Edge to Cloud - Why Open Matters | Tom Golway | 31m |
HPE argues the metaverse must run edge-to-cloud on open standards to support millions of concurrent users, using cloud‑native microservices on Kubernetes with… | ||
| The Importance of Digital Trust: An Overview of Decentralized Identity | Sam Curren | 16m |
Decentralized identity uses verifiable credentials held in a mobile wallet to prove things like birth certificates or a passport-style travel credential… | ||
| Panel Discussion: The Metaverse: Opportunities, Challenges, and Where Open Source Plays | Anni Lai, Tina Tsou, James Kaplan, Ranny Haiby, Eric Meyer | 36m |
Panelists describe concrete progress: an XR browser relaunched as Wolvic XR browser that brings the web into headsets, an Open Metaverse Foundation launched… | ||
| Open Code Collective Creating the Social Spatial Web | Liam Broza | 19m |
Ethereal Engine is an open source WebXR engine that runs on WebGPU/WebGL and powers full-body IK, volumetric capture and browser ML via tensorflow.js and… | ||
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