Metaverse startups must heed the mistakes of the past 40 years of virtual worlds

When it comes to the development of the metaverse, we think of companies like Epic Games with Fortnite and Roblox with its huge world, or the visions of the future from and films like Ready Player One. These are all huge undertakings from huge companies.

Yet the metaverse won’t just be the domain of big business (though it’ll no doubt have a huge piece of that pie). Startups are going to say, and I talked about the role these companies will play in the metaverse’s growth with CEO Frédéric Descamps of Manticore Games and CEO Raph Koster of Playable Worlds (and whose design credits include the MMORPG worlds of Ultima Online, Everquest, and Star Wars: Galaxies). This was part of our “Metaverse Startups” panel at the Into the Metaverse event.