The buzz around “Web 3.0” continues to increase – but normally these conversations involve some sort of discussion about Crypto Currencies or NTFs. What is more exciting to me is the advent of immersive Internet environments – currently referred to as “The Metaverse” – although there are many and it should be pluralized at least (or named something more appropriate – another discussion).
A challenge I see is that there is a separation between Consumer and Creator of these environments. Much like the early days of Web-based Internet emergence requiring specialist skills and the Web 2.0 opening of the Internet to everyone to share content – I think that we need to consider how Web 3.0 will be built – and by whom.
There’s some good news in that regard.
With Microsoft SharePoint Spaces and Microsoft Teams integration of these spaces – we have a toolset developing that will allow anyone to create 360 immersive environments very easily. These environments can then be shared and visited using headsets – or just through the mouse, a keyboard, or touch interfaces.
At this point, the toolset amounts to a unique way to present our Teams and Microsoft 365 content, but I imagine that we will soon see more control and options made available to expand the way we create these Spaces. For now, it’s still a powerful and compelling way to Create rather than just Consume these environments.
Of course – I made a video 🙂
