I'm afraid it won't work unfortunately. The "Metaverse" is essentially a brand name of former Facebook already, they would spend a lot of resources into promoting it, and they wouldn't interoperate with external implementations for sure. It's pretty clear they have big plans for it, that's why they announced a few years ago that Oculus Rift would become non-functional for those who don't have a Facebook account, for example.
So, naming anything else a "metaverse" is just the same evil as "googling" in other search engines than Google: regardless of the intent, it still strengthens the monopoly and the belief that Google is *the* search engine, and others just stay in its shadow. It's better to avoid calling alternative virtual worlds a "metaverse" and come up with some independent branding for the open ecosystem instead, to highlight the supremacy over the Meta's attempt, rather than the opposite.
Seriously, the title of this article is a scam: even though the backend and the content are open, and apps are free-as-in-beer, this has nothing to do with "open source mobile app".
Luckily, they have a web version, so an app is not needed actually.
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I'm afraid it won't work unfortunately. The "Metaverse" is essentially a brand name of former Facebook already, they would spend a lot of resources into promoting it, and they wouldn't interoperate with external implementations for sure. It's pretty clear they have big plans for it, that's why they announced a few years ago that Oculus Rift would become non-functional for those who don't have a Facebook account, for example.
So, naming anything else a "metaverse" is just the same evil as "googling" in other search engines than Google: regardless of the intent, it still strengthens the monopoly and the belief that Google is *the* search engine, and others just stay in its shadow. It's better to avoid calling alternative virtual worlds a "metaverse" and come up with some independent branding for the open ecosystem instead, to highlight the supremacy over the Meta's attempt, rather than the opposite.
> PlantNet combines open source technology with
… proprietary apps.
Seriously, the title of this article is a scam: even though the backend and the content are open, and apps are free-as-in-beer, this has nothing to do with "open source mobile app".
Luckily, they have a web version, so an app is not needed actually.