By 2017, questions were being raised about Reid’s ability to deliver on his ambitious promises, which included a custom avatar system, a living world as large as the state of Maryland, a virtual economy, rich environmental simulations and cross-platform capabilities for a variety of VR headsets. Shortly after the launch of that prototype, Improbable stopped promoting or mentioning MetaWorld at all. Reid was one of several developers to make use of the company’s public SDK, and Improbable thought MetaWorld made an effective demo to promote its “open community platform.” “Yeah but that’s the thing,” another user named Floogey responded, “We weren’t actually customers, we were victims.”Įngadget first interacted with Reid in 2016, when a UK startup named Improbable arranged a meeting inside a MetaWorld prototype to demonstrate Spatial OS, the startup’s scalable server tech. “It's disgusting to think that they have just left paying customers with not even a response,” a user named LordGirthVader wrote in June 2020. Reid’s final message in the old MetaWorld Discord server was posted on September 6th, 2019: “Check updates on the updates channel in coming weeks … I'll also be around with mods for discussion all week.” No update ever came, and in the two years since, the old server has become a guide to the seven stages of grief. The old server is full of angry users who say they gave Reid their money between 20 to join MetaWorld, and believe they were scammed. However, Wolf is active on another Discord server - this one also called MetaWorld and also created by Reid, though he hasn’t posted in it since 2019. The exchange has since been deleted, and Wolfssskin banned from the server. The confrontation continued with Reid accusing Wolf of being a troll, and Wolf claiming MetaWorld was a scam. “What’s interesting is that you think that you can stalk and harass me,” Reid wrote back. “Interesting that you think you can do the same scam again,” Wolf said. In the MetaWorld Discord server, a “press” channel lists articles from Engadget, Alphr, TechRadar, UploadVR, VentureBeat, Tom’s Hardware, Variety and CNBC, and links to a video from New Scientist magazine.Įarly on November 3rd, a user named Wolfssskin entered the MetaWorld press room and started typing.
He recently launched a marketplace where he's selling digital parcels of land and property as NFTs. MetaWorld has a slick website, a fresh YouTube channel, a new Discord server and Reid hosts daily chats on Clubhouse. Like many other organizations at the moment, Reid has been using the buzz around the metaverse to ramp up his own promotional efforts.
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