April 6, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Anjali Kochhar<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Upland co-founder Dirk Lueth believes that the colonization of the metaverse by tech giants and the building of so-called \u201cwalled garden systems\u201d is not sustainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lueth argues that instead of \u201clocking users in,\u201d the metaverse should usher in \u201ca future where they are free to move between platforms and can easily take their assets and identity with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While interest in the metaverse has seemingly dissipated as evidenced by Meta\u2019s decision to focus on artificial intelligence (AI), Dirk Lueth<\/u><\/a> argues that AI tools can still \u201cprovide very interesting enhancements for the metaverse in general.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an interview with Bitcoin.com News, Lueth shared his thoughts about the multichain metaverse as well as his organization\u2019s plans to create a metaverse super app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Asked if thinks the metaverse will eventually be controlled by a small number of centralized entities, Lueth said, \u201cWe don\u2019t have all the details of how the big tech giants will build their metaverse projects and if they will lock their users into walled gardens. I believe that walled garden systems are not sustainable over time and that the power of the people, in combination with property rights, will be much stronger over time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is also, by the way, why I co-founded, together with other decentralized projects, the open metaverse alliance for web3 (OM3<\/u><\/a>). Instead of locking users in, we want to ensure that there is a future where they are free to move between platforms and can easily take their assets and identity with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Talking about the possibility of a multichain metaverse, he said multi-chain standards could be possible already today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou can have some assets on one blockchain and other assets on another. What is more important is to have standards which define metadata, the look & feel and other characteristics of an asset. Once we have these standards, it will make it easy for users to move their assets around. And this is what we are working on at Upland and OMA3.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n