🛜 Metaverse Search Engine
Today's Highlights
- Lighthouse - finding Web3 experiences easily
- This Week On BuzzBelow - a recap on this week's topics.
- In Other News - a few interesting developments we're tracking.
Lighthouse - finding Web3 experiences easily
The metaverse has rapidly captured public interest. Virtual worlds like The Sandbox, Decentraland and Otherside are selling hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of land and are attracting names such as Adidas, Tommy Hilfiger and Snoop Dogg. The ecosystem’s rapidly growing level of fragmentation is making discovery an increasingly daunting experience for users and creators, who are now left wondering which world to explore and build experiences into. Founded by Jonathan Brun and Justine Massicotte, Lighthouse seeks to solve this problem by simplifying discovery and mobility across the spatial web. Lighthouse is an open metaverse navigation engine that enables the search for places, events, friends, creators, assets, and experiences across and within virtual worlds. Through its portal, Lighthouse empowers users to find trending activities, build groups of friends to explore the metaverse, see where their NFTs are usable and follow the work of specific brands and creators.
Discovery in the metaverse feels more like gaming, where one needs to jump from one game to the next to find things, than the internet, where one can access everything from a single entry point. Observers have warned that the lack of an easy way of jumping from one metaverse space to another risks holding back the development of Web3 in the future. With the Lighthouse search engine, it could help in overcoming such problems by providing users with a way of seeing various platforms all at once.
However, even with a successful launch of the metaverse search engine, due to the decentralized nature of the majority of virtual worlds, users can only see platforms at once by agreeing to partner with the search engine in order to be included in the database. Brun seems confident that although some spaces might decline a collaboration request with his company, others will accept it with open arms.
Lighthouse has raised a total of $7M in funding.