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Ryan Schultz
Personal blog · ryanschultz.comcultureai
Ryan Schultz's personal blog at ryanschultz.com covers culture and ai. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ryan Schultz's blog for coverage of social VR, virtual worlds and metaverse projects, including his list of social VR worlds and posts on High-Fidelity forks like Vircadia.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
News and Views on Social VR, Virtual Worlds, and the Metaverse, plus Spatial Computing and Artificial Intelligence
What Hacker News says?
> What happened during the COVID pandemic? Usage went up about 10%, and then leveled off. Logged in right now, at 0020 PDT: 32084 users. Varies between 30,000 and 50,000 around the clock. > News sources * https://modemworld.me/ * https://ryanschultz.com/
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on “Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years”What you’re describing sounds a lot like Second Life, which launched in 2003 and is still running. (Incidentally, to tie it back to Genshin, Second Life recently banned gacha-style transactions on its platform [0]) [0] https://ryanschultz.com/2021/08/02/second-life-bans-gacha-ma...
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on “App store payments will have increased competition”This is the largest list I know of (~176): https://ryanschultz.com/list-of-social-vr-virtual-worlds/ But it's missing many. Others have already mentioned Habitat (1986). Probably one of the most important.
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on “OpenSimWorld, Directory of the OpenSimulator Metaverse”> High Fidelity (went bust) There are currently three forks of High-Fidelity which I'll be keeping my eye on. I believe two of them have former/current High-Fidelity staff working on them. An interesting blog post about Vircadia, a FOSS-focused fork. [1] The blog also covers the other two forks. [2][3] [1] https://ryanschultz.com/2020/04/03/the-project-athena-fork-o... [2] https://ryanschultz.com/2019/11/17/tivoli-c…
on “Fortnite and the Metaverse”