Pax vs. the rest — How pax.world stacks up against the competition?

4 min readJan 27, 2022

At pax.world we were working on our vision of the metaverse long before Facebook decided to join. Our guiding goal was to ensure that our metaverse platform offered the richest communication options to the widest possible audience, thereby helping bring the benefits of a virtual world to as many people around the world as possible.

Today, as we invite thousands of users to our virtual meetups and events, we’re seeing that vision come to life as people are able to seamlessly connect and dive straight into our virtual experiences without there being the usual barriers to entry.

In this post, we will go over some of the specific advantages of using pax.world over other metaverse platforms and how all the work we’ve been doing behind the scenes makes a huge difference.

1) Life-like avatars with face-scanning

It is common for games and online platforms to allow the creation of avatars that represent their users. In pax.world we also support the use of regular avatars, however, we’ve also added the ability for users to scan their faces (with a webcam) and have them rendered onto their avatars.

This makes it possible for us to generate life-like avatars that are fairly easily recognizable as their real-world counterparts. We believe this is an important option for users to have, especially as we bring more real-world interactions into the metaverse, such as education and entertainment.

Currently this is not an option available in competing platforms, all of which take an overly animated approach that is not always suitable for all use cases.

2) Very low hardware requirements and browser support

Pax.world’s vision of accessibility required that it be available across all platforms and run on regular browsers. This means you can enter pax.world via a PC, Mac or phone using any browser and still experience the key features.

Currently only Decentraland can be run on a browser while The Sandbox only supports Windows OS with a downloadable client (can’t run in-browser).

Not only this, running pax.world is possible even on a $300 Chromebook with modest hardware due to our ongoing optimizations. This very low hardware requirement means even users from developing regions with limited access to powerful hardware don’t have to miss out on the metaverse experience.

3) Advanced audio and video capabilities

Rich communication requires powerful audio/video tools and pax.world prioritizes this with support for spatial audio and video and the ability to broadcast audio/video content for a variety of purposes.

These experiences are further enhanced by audio and video chatting abilities for all users, meaning they can talk and display their webcam views in-world — something not supported by other competitors.

You can think of pax.world’s audio/video capabilities as a Zoom call within the metaverse.

4) Support for low-cost in-world transactions

Unlike competitors, nearly all of which use the Ethereum network, pax.world is going to utilize Binance Smart Chain to make in-world transacting significantly cheaper and faster. Today the average cost of Ethereum transactions makes them prohibitive for all but the “crypto rich” but that changes with pax.world and is inline with our goal of accessibility.

5) Exclusive NFTs and unique virtual land ownership mechanisms

Our rich communication tools and an accessible experience is only the start, we’ve got various exclusive NFT integrations planned alongside unique land sale/purchase/lease mechanisms that will reward land owners in ways not currently possible.

We will be revealing more about our land ownership and additional mechanisms in the weeks ahead.

For more details, read the full pax.world whitepaper or follow us on socials to stay updated.