From Neuromancer to Snow Crash: Facebook’s clumsy vision unlikely to fulfill 40-year dream of a Metaverse
By Rabindra Ratan, Associate Professor of Media and Information, Michigan State University; Yiming Lei, Doctoral student in Media and Information, Michigan State University The metaverse is a network of always-on virtual environments in which many people can interact with one another and digital objects while operating virtual representations, or avatars. of themselves. Think of a combination of immersive virtual reality, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and the web. The metaverse is a concept from science fiction that many people in the technology industry envision as the successor to today’s internet. It’s only a vision at this point, but...
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