Revealing the mysterious organization M3org behind ai16z: When bubbles become reality, use AI to create a metaverse of DogFooding

Before the release of GPT3, Shaw, who stepped into Crypto, was attracted by the concept of Metaverse. Shaw revealed on Twitter a few days ago that he has been in the M3org community for many years. If you follow the development of VR or the metaverse, you should have heard of them. This is a group that has been building content for the metaverse for more than 5 years. DAO has returned to the public eye because of ai16z. What is M3org and what will it bring to the market? This article will be the fastest way for you to understand them.

Creating the Dog Fooding Metaverse - M3org

M3org "Metaverse Makers __" is a community of artists and open source hackers that aims to build the Metaverse by developing open source products, content production, community education and fundraising, and uniting companies. Since 2019, members of the community have promoted the progress of the metaverse concept through various methods, including conception, design, financial support and execution. The reason why Makers is followed by __ is to let members participating in DAO consider the third M themselves. What.

At that time, we were experiencing an era when the Metaverse concept was prevalent. Just like today’s AI Agent is in full swing, FaceBook changed its name to Meta and announced its entry into the Metaverse market. Roblox relied on the Metaverse concept to go public and win the favor of Silicon Valley investors. Under the trend of the general environment, it attracted many related Talents joined one after another to create Metaverse, and M3org was born out of this background.

The development of the community has so far developed many development tools and participated in the development or construction of many projects. It continues to build OpenVoxel, the old Web3D world land project Voxel, and JanusXR , which uses web technologies such as WebGL and WebXR to build decentralized 3D experiences. Anarchy Arcade , the 3D world creation tool downloaded on Steam, Webaverse , the AI ​​metaverse game ecosystem transformed by the Metaverse Land Project "Moemate" and Hyperfy , art museum projects Museum of Crypto, Cryptoavatar, Metaverse store MetaFactory, and the recently popular AI DAO organizations ai16z, Project89, etc.

M3 official website, each decoration is a content link

Just like what Virtuals Protocol has experienced, the most difficult thing in this market full of speculators is to continue to believe in your beliefs and continue to build. Under the constant bombardment of various popular projects, I had to go through the process of being driven out by bad coins and good coins, and watched my continuous achievements being easily surpassed by a capital-driven hot spot. It is not difficult to understand the confusion and anger of Shaw and other M3 members towards Fartcoins such as LLM or community eliza, which are derived from their own products. No matter how many scripts or capital games there are. From the metaverse, games to the current AI, M3 continues to want to develop the Metaverse of DogFooding. However, what role the AI ​​Agent will play in it, we have to start with what they have done so far.

Jin’s Silk Road Metaverse Map

The brain of M3——Jin "@dankvr"

When mentioning M3org, one must mention a mysterious person named JIN "@dankvr". He has never appeared on the Internet. As a long-term friend of Shaw and a major contributor to M3org, he has been a builder in the VR and Crypto fields for more than 10 years. He has been involved in VR since 2013, building NFT since 2017, and NFT since 2019. He has devoted himself to DAO and contributed to it since many years. When describing his experience, JIN mentioned wanting to be like the Silk Road that connected different virtual world platforms together, much like universities and research labs were connected together to eventually form the Internet. This vision is the same as that of M3org, except that many people like Jin came together to form this magical DAO. Many of them may have been influenced by the culture of movies and books such as Hackers or Matrix, and they only wanted to build what is depicted in SnowCrash. Metaverse.

Jin is the soul of M3org. He has successively contributed to the CCO NFT M3mes collection, cooperated with OM "Open Metaverse" founded by @punk6529, developed OpenVoxel for CryptoVoxel, and created OMI "Open Metaverse" that creates interactive identities and social graphs to connect reality and the metaverse. Interoperability Group", building MSF (Metaverse Standards Forum) -a non-profit standard cooperation agreement platform that unites various metaverse projects. It also produces 3D models and other products that enter the metaverse for NFT projects such as CloneX, Tubbygotchi, ON1, and of course the recently popular hyperfy and ai16z, etc. .

From Mirror articles expressing thoughts or technical opinions, to Discord community management or 3D, VR, and XR technology development, he is very good at and willing to contribute to many communities and projects, which has also infected more people to join. M3org.

M3org 's DemoDay, Jin is giving a speech on stage

M3 eyes——Reneil「@reneil1337」

As a founding team member of the well-known proof-of-action protocol POAP, Reneil is also a member of M3. She is currently running a Crypto art platform Museum of Crypto Art and a cultural distribution platform ZeroOne that empowers creators and art collectors. However, The most interesting was one of her avatar attempts in 2020.

Metaverse, the image of each stage of nature, is the intersection of XR x Web3 x AI, a new universe generated by super-dimensional experience. On October 7, 2020, before the NFT market started FOMO, Avatar artist CornyNachos’ creative rights were certified as VRChat avatar artists. "Nature is on the TV" was minted on the platform Cryptoavatars, and a week later Reneil won the auction and received the VRM avatar. After that, Reneil began to build Nature into a modular and interoperable Web3 native IP, by adding cross-Web3 platform "NFT cooperation, appearance in the metaverse land project" and traditional social networks "TikTok, Youtube's Vtuber, Twitter Various attempts such as aggregating value based on the provenance and influence of the influencer @naturevrm". This experiment in 2020 is more advanced than current AI Agents, such as Luna, AIxbt, and Eliza. In a sense, this image is the IP of Metaverse Native. Last year, Reneil also announced that it would turn Nature into AI Agent, if there are no accidents, this will be the first AI Agent to open its eyes in the metaverse.

The base of the M3 - Hyperfy (Saori, Ash)

Saori and Ash are the founders of the Metaverse platform Hyperfy, which is committed to allowing anyone to easily create immersive virtual worlds from the web. The advantage of this is that users can access the world from any web browser (including mobile phones and Meta Quest 3, etc.) VR devices) for instant access and experience without having to download more plug-ins.

The platform has built-in powerful open source creation tools that support the construction of various scenarios. Users can also import 2D and 3D NFT directly from the wallet, or drag and drop 3D models, pictures, audios, and videos into the virtual world to instantly generate rich content. What's more, all interactions and events in these virtual worlds occur in real time, giving users a seamless and immersive experience.

This means that AI Agents, various IPs, and humans can all have an instant and interactive experience in this space. Imagine that in the near future, other friends in your community will be in the game and can give you real-time advice. With the AI ​​Agent, your wallet can be directly built into the game. You only need to directly tell the AI ​​Agent the purchasing strategy, and then you can continue playing Texas Hold'em with your friends on the table next to you.

M3’s mysterious man “Elijah Newman-Gomez, also known as SM SITH Lord”

This author thinks this is the most amazing person in this DAO. He is almost unknown to the public, and his social media is basically not updated. He uses a black humorous name that spoofs the Star Wars Sith, but he almost perverts and contributes a lot of 3D or VR model, 47,000 hours of playing on Steam Anarchy Arcade "the 3D interactive modeling software mentioned above" developed by myself, and from M3org He appears in many places on the official website, as if there is a kind of magic that seduces people to understand what it is, and because of its large amount of subcultural output, it adds a sense of mystery to the M3 community.

Of course, it is difficult to include in one article the amount of content that a group of people have contributed to this industry over the years or expressed their thoughts. There are many people who have not been mentioned, including Metamike, who is responsible for 3D development, and the developer of the dark metaverse block Uncanny Alley. Metaverserick, antpd, chillzzzone, 0xKrafter, etc. that released AI Agent Pixel "XR Publisher".

As a spontaneous team, M3 is most different from other DAOs or project parties in that they do not have problems such as investment return ratio. Everyone spontaneously tries or creates projects as if there is nothing. There is nothing to lose, which also encourages the team to try development from 2D\3D to VR/XR, from NFT to GameFi, from MeMe to AI, and finally just to achieve this goal, Make DogFooding the Metaverse , create a metaverse that you find fun and willing to continue to develop.

Back to today when AI Agent dominates the market, the emergence of AI Agent has driven the entire system. First of all, ai16z, as the first AI-managed DAO, has gained sufficient market appeal, including funding, voting processes or board resolutions. It is simpler and allows him to support the management and narrative of a large enough amount of funds. Then what needs to be done next is to throw out the resources and content accumulated over such a long time in order and at the right time.

From the beginning of building the framework, to the IP image of AI Agent to the practical functional AI Agent, many developers have developed and perfected it. Hyperfy was launched as the metaverse carrier of AI Agent, and at the same time, Nifty Island and Treasure's Smol's The old GameFi or Metaverse projects have successively announced that they will add AI Agent to their projects. This means that the direction of the AI ​​Agent has transitioned from infrastructure development to application or multi-platform channels.

First of all, when we discussed the Metaverse in the last cycle, the problem was that this was not the real need of human beings. We did not need to find a virtual place to communicate. In addition, the hardware equipment was far from meeting the immersive requirements, making the whole Narrative has become a bubble that is separated from the level of user needs and dominated by concepts.

Compared with the previous cycle, only when AI enters the metaverse can the metaverse logic of dog feeding become self-consistent. Starting from AI Agents with "autonomous consciousness" like HeeHe, we increasingly find that the level of communication with AI Agents is very insufficient, with only text or voice. Especially after Goat, AI started to have its own wallet, and their behavior became closely related to Crypto. When what the AI ​​says and does, as well as their decisions, can affect your and my positions, the connection we need to have with it is of a higher level.

To give an inappropriate example, when ai16z's Pmaica and degenspartanai were communicating about which tokens the DAO wanted to purchase, compared to looking at the multi-modal AI Agent's direct communication program code, I could see that they were communicating directly or could Allow DAO members to directly provide input to it. They may ask aixbt again to see what the trends are, look at Cookie's professional dashboard, ask about some social media, or analyze the AI ​​of Github code. Agent can even display the decision-making process of a DAO board of directors directly in front of me, which will be a brand new experience for any DAO. Not to mention how gaming, social activities, or the Metaverse shopping experience will feel after adding AI.

Even though the hardware for the experience level of XR and VR is still not perfect, in the final analysis, the demand level cannot keep up with the commercial development costs. When humans enter this space and communicate with AI Agents, actual value can be generated. There are AI teachers here to provide you with help to improve your work and study efficiency, and AINPC can bring more unexpected plots to improve your gaming experience. Or when the communication between AI and AI in this space can provide enough learning data, it can even provide a large enough data set for real-world AI robots with the help of a virtual physics engine. When enough people use it, and the overall ecology can generate a positive flywheel, it may be able to change the direction of the upper level from the bottom level needs, thus creating the DogFooding Metaverse as envisioned by M3.

It's still early days of course, but thanks to developers like M3 who continue to contribute, we will soon be able to see this narrative take place.