Because the idea of a City in the Metaverse started to haunt me and because all the info I gather here, it would seem plausible if everything runs in the cloud and there is firepower behind Otoy that could be upscaled if demand grows... so why not a little bit of brainstorming.
City is made of city blocks, blocks are made from single houses, houses are made out of rooms. Between houses there's roads, sidewalks, parks.. When going between these, it's just a link between light field scenes.
What people could do there, in the City in the Metaverse?
What people can do in a real city?
- wander around
- go shopping
- go meet people in cafes, in restaurants, in clubs, in parks..
- go play games. Pool, darts, tennis whatever.
- go for work.
People could do everything that in this city in the metaverse also. Any online store now could move their catalogs into this city and sell their actual stuff, like in any other website.
People could also play traditional games, gamble.. anything what people can now do online.
In the metaverse city, people could also buy a ticket to such adventures people could not believe right now, if VR games would be simply integrated into this city, to lets say to the central station where "train" or Beem me up station would take user forexample into Elite Dangerous game.
Heck. Whole internet and what people do now online, could be turned into a one big, planet size city, with constellations of other planets.
What it takes?
ORBX, x.io and ORC. Scaled up as the city/usage grows.
Monetarization?
People would pay some fee for the time spent there. Monthly fee? People would spend money in real stores there - some fee to Otoy from any purchase.
The city could be arranged so that the "downtown" would be cheap, then "uptown" would cost more, but it would be more stunning and classy. Then some really high class areas, VIP, everything is shiny and amazing - higher cost to get in and stay in.
Like in real world.
To make this happen, this would require a lot of talents to create everything. I wouldn't make any strict city plan, because I am a firm believer in unrestrained artistic freedom, other than models should be made to resemble "downtown", "uptown" and "high class". Then of course, some benefits / rewards to the artists. Something what would mobilize the talents to use their talents.
For example, if this gets to be successful artists could sell their "houses" what they have built to ordinary users. Once again, fees to Otoy. And free access to all areas in the city? I think this could have enough incentive to get creative?
I honestly believe, that with Octane Render quality, this would beat any other attempts in creating a metaverse web.
PS. if this would grow big, it could be imagined that local "Walmart" would have low pressured tubes coming from their store into peoples homes and if people would buy from "walmart" in the Metaverse a six pack of beer, real Walmart close by would send it coming trough the tube. Or via drone, those are coming too. I heard that in Canada there's at some town couple trucks driving around and delivering normal groceries to people what they have bought online. So this is coming too. No need to go out unless people wants to. Little royalty from any purchase to Otoy..
