<html><body><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="en-NIV-268" class="text Gen-11-1">The Tower of Babel</span></h3><p class="chapter-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="text Gen-11-1"><span class="chapternum" style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 2.4rem; position: relative; line-height: 0.8em; bottom: -0.1em; left: 0px; display: inline;">11 </span>Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.</span> <span id="en-NIV-269" class="text Gen-11-2"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; font-weight: 700; display: inline;">2 </span>As people moved eastward,<span data-fn="#fen-NIV-269a" class="footnote" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-269a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2011%3A1-9&version=NIV#fen-NIV-269a" title="See footnote a" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); vertical-align: text-top;">a</a>]</span> they found a plain in Shinar<span data-fn="#fen-NIV-269b" class="footnote" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-269b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2011%3A1-9&version=NIV#fen-NIV-269b" title="See footnote b" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); vertical-align: text-top;">b</a>]</span> and settled there.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="en-NIV-270" class="text Gen-11-3"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; font-weight: 700; display: inline;">3 </span>They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.</span> <span id="en-NIV-271" class="text Gen-11-4"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; font-weight: 700; display: inline;">4 </span>Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="en-NIV-272" class="text Gen-11-5"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; font-weight: 700; display: inline;">5 </span>But the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">Lord</span> came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.</span> <span id="en-NIV-273" class="text Gen-11-6"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; font-weight: 700; display: inline;">6 </span>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">Lord</span> said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.</span> <span id="en-NIV-274" class="text Gen-11-7"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; font-weight: 700; display: inline;">7 </span>Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="en-NIV-275" class="text Gen-11-8"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; font-weight: 700; display: inline;">8 </span>So the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">Lord</span> scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.</span> <span id="en-NIV-276" class="text Gen-11-9"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; font-weight: 700; display: inline;">9 </span>That is why it was called Babel<span data-fn="#fen-NIV-276c" class="footnote" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-276c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2011%3A1-9&version=NIV#fen-NIV-276c" title="See footnote c" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); vertical-align: text-top;">c</a>]</span>—because there the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">Lord</span> confused the language of the whole world. From there the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">Lord</span> scattered them over the face of the whole earth.</span></p><br><div class="signature">--<br>Gesendet mit der GMX Mail App</div><div class="mail_android_quote" style="line-height: 1"><br><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/vnd.ui.insecure+html;charset=utf-8"><div class="mail_android_quote" style="line-height: 1"><br>Am 02.05.25, 14:03 schrieb John Carlson <yottzumm@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0.8ex 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="auto">XR = VR + AR + MR + objective reality</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">XR is extended reality. Google it.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> XR devices are used to enter the metaverse, webiverse, the external world. There’s already OpenXR and WebXR standards.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Come out and see what’s outside the Cave.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What we haven’t handled yet is subjective reality. Ideal reality? IR? Yes, UR.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM Christoph Valentin via x3d-public <<a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org">x3d-public@web3d.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div>Correction:<br><br>I mean, MR does not "extend" reality, it's just a special part of reality, which deals with immersive, interactive, multiuser story telling, command and control<br><br><div>--<br>Gesendet mit der GMX Mail App</div><div style="line-height:1"><br><div style="line-height:1"><br>Am 02.05.25, 13:41 schrieb Christoph Valentin via x3d-public <x3d-public@<a href="http://web3d.org">web3d.org</a>>:</div></div></div><div><div style="line-height:1"><div style="line-height:1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0.8ex 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
The "metaverse" is the thing, that is perceived by the user, but that's nothing, that must be specified<br><br><div>--<br>Gesendet mit der GMX Mail App</div><div style="line-height:1"><br><div style="line-height:1"><br>Am 02.05.25, 13:33 schrieb Christoph Valentin via x3d-public <x3d-public@<a href="http://web3d.org">web3d.org</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0.8ex 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
Hi,<br><br>I like "mixed reality = virtual reality + real reality".<br><br>I mean, VR does not "extend" reality, it's just a special part of reality, which deals with immersive, interactive story telling, command and control<br><br><div>--<br>Gesendet mit der GMX Mail App</div><div style="line-height:1"><br><div style="line-height:1"><br>Am 30.04.25, 20:33 schrieb John Carlson via x3d-public <x3d-public@<a href="http://web3d.org">web3d.org</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0.8ex 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
<div dir="auto">I kind of like “Spatial Internet” is to Metaverse/World as Internet is to Website.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Perhaps “extended-reality” would be better than “virtual-reality.” Meaning we’ve extended beyond mere VR into other accessible media including the passive and active external environments.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This means that real objects with behaviors can be brought into each metaverse, and many metaverses can be viewed in the metaverse, and state can transfer between metaverses via the external environments.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">XRML anyone?</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM Joe D Williams via x3d-public <<a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org">x3d-public@web3d.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><br>
This XR idea of our blossoming metaverse to integrate <br>
realtime Spatial anchors and assets of the current reality <br>
with realtime Scene anchors and assets of the current virtuality <br>
means the metaverse definition of our Immersive Web<br>
needs to be extended. <br>
<br>
>From Google Dictionary <br>
(Current) Definition from Oxford Languages · <br>
met·a·verse <br>
/ˈmedəˌvərs/ <br>
noun Computing <br>
<br>
"a virtual-reality space in which users can interact with<br>
a computer-generated environment and other users"<br>
<br>
New Extended Candidate: <br>
metaverse or webiverse or webimetaverse, or whatever, you get the idea. <br>
<br>
"a virtual-reality space in which a user can interact with <br>
the real external environment, <br>
a computer-generated environment, <br>
and other real and virtual users" <br>
<br>
All Good for the WWW,<br>
Joe<br>
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