Don't let DARPA find out about this or we'll have a public-private partnership between Valve and Raytheon operating functional manhack arcades in the next half life installment.
Yes very useful because bottleneck in nanoparticle and organic chemistry research is definitely a shitty online metaverse, now CERN researchers can finally come together to innovate!
What is the motivation for gaming companies to use this “thin layer API” in their games? Do they get a cut of some funding pool, or just some good karma?
If you can turn the problem into a game you've already solved it.. don't see the value here (except saving compute time by using humans for pattern recognition instead of computers).