50 people have signed up to join the Open Metaverse Alliance (OMA3) since its inception, according to Sarojini McKenna, co-founder and CEO of Dacoco, and Sebastien Borget, co-founder of The Sandbox.
Additionally, Borget updated Decrypt on its “Alpha Season” metaverse experience.
This week at the WebSummit in Lisbon, Borget and Dacoco discussed the newly formed Web3 company alliance tasked with preserving the metaverse’s compatibility.
When the OMA3 was launched on November 1, founding board members Animoca Brands, Dapper Labs, Voxels, Unstoppable Domains, Sandbox, and Decentraland, among others, were already on board.
To fundamentally guarantee that “users are included in the core of the building projects of their platform and the application,” McKenna, who functions as chair of the OMA3 Ecosystem Working Group, stated that “we are standardizing open collaboration for metaverses.” This will allow users to maintain control over their identity, accounts, and owned assets.
To further this goal, she continued, “OMA3 will provide technical standards, open-source code, information on best practices, external advocacy, and ecosystem liaison.”
Organizations in the Web3 area have membership access, and it is predicted that individuals and DAOs will soon be added as well.
Sandbox Update
The Sandbox’s “Alpha Season 3,” a ten-week interactive metaverse experience with entertainment events from businesses like Warner Music Group, The Walking Dead, and Bored Ape Yacht Club, among others, concluded with a discussion between Borget and Decrypt.
After the “exciting” Christmas season, Borget disclosed that “by the first quarter of next year, we want people to be able to post straight on their land, implying that Sandbox would become available at all times featuring user-created material.”
He said that “the same structure we put in place with the season, such as leaderboards, incentives, missions, and so on,” will be accessible to authors.
Metaverse universes Early in October, when statistics data from DappRadar showed that The Sandbox and Decentraland only drew 552 and 38 unique active wallets (UAW) in a single day, respectively, the virtual worlds became the focus of an intense sociological investigation.
In contrast to the market for digital collectables, for instance, the metaverse field is still relatively new despite valuations in the billions of dollars. The daily UAW statistics for Sandbox and Decentraland were 1,393 and 1,408, respectively, at the time of publishing.
