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What is metaverse? The word metaverse has been a hot topic of conversation recently, with Facebook<\/a> and Microsoft<\/a> both staking claims. But what is the metaverse? And when will it get here? That what everyone wants to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s do a little deep dive into the idea of metaverse, to get an idea on how it all started. The term metaverse can be traced back to Neal Stephenson and his dystopian cyberpunk novel Snow Crash. The novel was released in 1992, and it\u2019s considered a canon of the genre, along with William Gibson\u2019s Neuromancer, which describes a virtual reality dataspace called the matrix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The metaverse in Snow Crash is a 3D virtual reality space accessed through personal terminals and virtual reality goggles that have a lot in common with the Oculus Quest<\/a> and other VR headsets. This 3D space appears to its users as an urban environment created along a single hundred-meter-wide road, the Street. Stephenson writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows, special neighborhoods where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are ignored, and free-combat zones where people can go to kill each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Stephenson\u2019s vision of the metaverse seems familiar, it\u2019s because massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs, or more commonly, MMOs) share many of its properties. In Second Life<\/a> (released in 2003), for example, users can customize realistic avatars, meet with other players, create virtual items, own virtual property, and exchange goods and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virtual experiences like Second Life can be described as protometaverses. Why the prefix? Because they exist in isolation, each being a digital island whose inhabitants and their virtual assets never leave it. The metaverse Mark Zuckerberg wants to create isn\u2019t some grand virtual experience\u2014it\u2019s the next version of the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve gone from desktop to web to mobile; from text to photos to video. But this isn\u2019t the end of the line,\u201d writes Zuckerberg<\/a> in a recent letter to his employees. \u201cThe next platform will be even more immersive\u2014an embodied internet where you\u2019re in the experience, not just looking at it. We call this the metaverse, and it will touch every product we build.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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