In the online courthouse, avatars bow, and in the swimming pool, they float on the water. In the sau..

In the online courthouse, avatars bow, and in the swimming pool, they float on the water. In the sauna, she wears sheep’s hair and goes back and forth between cold and bath. There is also a space to commemorate pets. It is a landscape of a “small metaverse” created by an individual who has recently attracted attention.

These days, online law schools, swimming pools, and saunas made of artificial intelligence (AI) have been created, making it a hot topic of the market.Compared to the huge metaverse once built by companies, the scale and function are small. Instead, you can quickly understand what you’re going to do.

It was really interesting to see the temple hall for the first time. I was able to pick a bare-headed character that looked like Dong Ja-seung, play 108 times, and listen to the reading of the half-night scene. It was also possible to talk to other users. As it became a hot topic, it exceeded 1 million visitors in a week, and even an article said, “Why MZ (Millennium, Generation Z) is enthusiastic about online temples.”

The start of the online virtual temple “Sansa,” known as the original, was wrong. Park Jin-won, a non-developer and liberal arts producer known by his activity name Metamong, said in a media interview that he used OpenAI’s Codex.It is a so-called “vibe coding” method that explains desired functions with natural language and modifies AI and code.

Park explained that it took less than 30 minutes to develop the first prototype (MVP). Since then, as the number of users has increased, necessary operations and modifications have been made, and the task of stably operating crowded services is still being solved.

There was also an interesting event as people flocked. Convenience store GS25 collaborated with Sansa to open a metaverse pop-up store called Cafe25 Sansa. It is a virtual convenience store where you have to bow 25 times to drink ‘full-owned’ coffee.

Among the online metaverse I visited in person, the Santiago pilgrimage route was more complete than the monotonous mountain temples and saunas inside. If I left it on next to the screen, I rolled it up in automatic mode, and my friends passed by. I put the online pilgrimage route on one side of the screen and worked on it. There was an aspect of “healing” just by escaping the crowded and stressful company and daily noise.

The starting point is Saint-Jean-Piedfort, France, and the destination is Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Considering that the journey on the screen is 763.7km, the scale (scale) of the online space is quite large. Walking on the pilgrimage route, I could see why people were so enthusiastic. Unlike the game, there was no reason to beat a rival. There was no burden but to just experience the presence of avatars and other pilgrims moving along the road.

“Little Metaverse” is implemented with Vibe coding

Online metaverse is the same principle as a simple game. Create a virtual world and implement players to operate inside. Creating a virtual space used to require workstations and many developers, but it has become easier with the development of coding tools and languages along with AI.

As basic tools, I use Three.js and WebGL, libraries that draw 3D graphics in my browser.

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