Discovering the Metaverses: Towards Open Federated Immersive Authoring Platforms

Social features are critical to contemporary virtual worlds or metaverses. We compare current platforms and motivate a new open-source platform to introduce high school students to authoring immersive media content. Many constraints around privacy, hardware, and licenses constrain the options for using these existing platforms and tools in informal education contexts. We propose that a federated model of servers could support innovation and communities.