Development of voluntary standards for software formats and software protocols for enabling access to a global virtual and augmented reality based network that can enable blockchain-authenticated and blockchain linked, real and virtual assets, real and virtual places, and people, and digital virtual currencies, which allows for secure commercial transactions between said assets, places, and people, allows for contract formation and execution between said assets, places, and people, allows for rule-based navigation among said places, and allows for the design and creation by 3rd parties of augmented or virtual reality content or environments within said global network, that are shareable, interoperable, navigable and transactable according to the aforementioned standards and protocols and programmable contracts; computer software development, namely, developing computer software, software formats, and software protocols for enabling access to a global virtual and augmented reality based network that can enable blockchain-authenticated and blockchain linked, real and virtual assets, real and virtual places, and people, and digital virtual currencies, which allows for secure commercial transactions between said assets, places, and people, allows for contract formation and execution between said assets, places, and people, allows for rule-based navigation among said places, and allows for the design and creation by 3rd parties of augmented or virtual reality content or environments within said global network, that are shareable, interoperable, navigable and transactable according to the aforementioned standards and protocols and programmable contracts