MetaScape
A digital world for everyday life.
Walk in as yourself. Meet whoever is in the Commons, the communal world. Step through a door into a real place.
Portal one
The Market.
Twelve storefronts from real businesses across three wings: Style, Beauty and Wellness, Dining. Walk up to a unit, browse what they actually sell, and go through to their own site to buy.
Portal two
Metrix Prime.
The home world of the Metrix universe: a night city where every portal ring on the boulevard opens onto a real business's site. Walk it, drive it, or take the ship.
Portals open now
Two doors are open.
Each portal is a real place you can walk into today. The Market is the district with the shops in it; Metrix Prime is the home world MetaScape is built on.
The Market
12 storefronts3 wingsOpen now
A walkable hall of real businesses: Style, Beauty and Wellness, Dining. Browse real products and prices, then buy on their own site.
Metrix Prime
Home worldWalk, drive or flyOpen now
The home world of the Metrix universe: a night city whose portal rings each open onto a real business's site. Walk the boulevard, drive it, or take the ship.
Six districts, a plaza, and the country between them.
You arrive in the Commons and every district is a portal ring away. All six are open. Behind the plaza there is a gap in the hedge, and through it the roads out.
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Commons
MetaScape itself: an open plaza where everyone arrives, sees who is around, and walks into a portal. This is the communal world.
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The Market
Twelve real storefronts across three wings. Browse, talk to whoever is shopping next to you, buy on their own site.
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Homes
A street where anyone can claim a free house, decorate it and bring people to it. Your name gives you an address.
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Work
An office floor with desks and meeting rooms. The front desk opens a private floor for your team that you share by link.
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Events
An amphitheatre with one big screen that anyone can book — to teach, to perform, to show something to everybody at once.
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The Wall
Who has been here. Sign your name and leave a video hello from wherever in the world you actually are.
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Metrix Prime
The home world of the Metrix universe, next door: a night city whose portal rings each open onto a real business's site.
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The Overland
Open country outside the districts, and the roads that join them. Ground you can claim and build on — and the only place anyone can be hurt.
Outside the districts
Then the floor runs out.
Behind the plaza there is a gap in the hedge. Through it the districts stop and open country starts: a disc three hundred and ninety metres across, cut into parcels you can claim, build on, and lose. Raise a tent, then a shack, then a cabin, a house, a hall. Hold it with guards, or with fifty people under one name. It is also the one part of MetaScape where anyone can be hurt — nowhere else, and you have to walk out there to find it.
- parcels to hold
- ~700
- to a parcel
- 24 m
- rungs, tent to hall
- 5
- charged in beta
- 0
MetaScape is in beta and its economy is switched off. Every price in the world reads zero and nothing changes hands.
Four steps and you are in.
Step 01: Choose how you show up
A name and a look: pick a body, match your skin and hair tones from a photo or set them yourself, then height, build and outfit. Saved on your device. You do not need an account to walk in.
Step 02: Walk in
Keyboard or a controller on a desktop, a drag anywhere on a phone, a thumbstick on a headset. Same world, same people.
Step 03: Meet whoever is here
Everyone inside is shown in real time. Talk to anyone within earshot, and only them. Turn the microphone on and they hear your actual voice.
Step 04: Pick a door
Seven portal rings stand around the plaza. A store to browse, a house to claim, a stage to book, or the gap in the hedge and the country past it.
Every Tuesday, 8 PM Eastern
Commons Night.
One hour, one plaza, everyone at once. Dexter Price, who built MetaScape, is in the Commons every Tuesday at 8 PM Eastern to meet whoever walks in.
First Commons Night: Tuesday, October 13, 8 PM Eastern. No account needed. Desktop, phone or headset.
Arrive in the Commons.
It is where everyone lands. Look for the crowd.
Talk to whoever is near you.
Turn your microphone on and they hear your real voice. Only people within earshot hear you.
Take the tour.
We walk new players through the portal rings: Metrix Prime, the Market and the gap in the hedge to the Overland.
Bring a question.
Ask the person who built it what comes next.
What it feels like
A realistic world, for more than gaming.
The realism of an open-world city. The everyday life of a life sim. Everyone online in one place. And the shopping is real: what you buy in the world is bought from a real business.
For businesses
Your business, in the world.
A storefront in the Market shows your real products and prices and opens onto your real site. Built on Metrix, so it stays in step with the website you already have.