> It can even be simple things, if I can now whiteboard virtually, and use my own hand writing on the board, and now I'm in another app, and I'd like to pull up that whiteboard I did? This is equivalent to say Slack letting you send photos or files over.
Except that it is not at all equivalent. To pull your whiteboard the other app has to pull the code that draws and manipulates it. This has two problems a) security b) how the host app supposed to interact with yours?
OLE and a few similar technologies tried to answer this. Never seen big use due to complexity. Since that time no new ideas emerged in the field and I don’t see how Metaverse would solve this. Without addressing interoperability and security Metawerse apps will be siloed in the same way as modern apps. That would impose non-physical constraints in the world that tries to by as close to physical reality as possible. I see this as a major concern.
Except that it is not at all equivalent. To pull your whiteboard the other app has to pull the code that draws and manipulates it. This has two problems a) security b) how the host app supposed to interact with yours?
OLE and a few similar technologies tried to answer this. Never seen big use due to complexity. Since that time no new ideas emerged in the field and I don’t see how Metaverse would solve this. Without addressing interoperability and security Metawerse apps will be siloed in the same way as modern apps. That would impose non-physical constraints in the world that tries to by as close to physical reality as possible. I see this as a major concern.