Open source secure chat developers Matrix.org threw their fans for a loop today, surprising everyone with their latest bit of tech. Having taken part in launching the open platform Riot last September, allowing users to communicate securely across a variety of services, the Matrix crew decided to bring their skills to the virtual reality cyberspace.
The current layout of the virtual reality landscape has players like Facebook’s Oculus and Steam are dominating the field, creating their own silos. Google and Apple are working on their own projects and can be expected to act in a similar fashion.
While this may be good for each individual ecosystem, it creates what Matrix.org’s Technical co-founder Matthew Hodgson accurately terms as islands. Disconnected from one another, he says that they are becoming walled gardens. Even as the experience of using each specific product improves, we are less and less able to break through to communicate from one platform to the next.
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Source: Geek Time