The metaverse hype that surged during the Covid-19 pandemic has largely fizzled out, as Korean tech companies shut down the virtual meetup services they launched during the heyday with an ambition to impact social media and gatherings culture.
People don’t even agree on what the word means. They just insert their own definition, and assume that’s what everyone else must mean.
And it’s literally a joke.
The metaverse from Snow Crash is a rude joke about whizz-bang flying-through-numbers virtual reality. Neal Stephenson took that realm of mindbending impossibilities and turned it into a mall. And it’s such a capitalist capture of the concept that low-end users appear in black and white.
The engineer-y part of it, the Torment Nexus you could actually implement, is even sillier. You want your website… to have a storefront? Even in Second Life, shops were mostly full of low-prim kiosks you could browse from a mile away. And reinventing the limitations of objective three-dimensional space means your neighbors can be dicks. You’d have to ask what forum is south of Lemmy. And then hope they don’t block out your imaginary sunlight with a giant golden phallus.
People don’t even agree on what the word means. They just insert their own definition, and assume that’s what everyone else must mean.
And it’s literally a joke.
The metaverse from Snow Crash is a rude joke about whizz-bang flying-through-numbers virtual reality. Neal Stephenson took that realm of mindbending impossibilities and turned it into a mall. And it’s such a capitalist capture of the concept that low-end users appear in black and white.
The engineer-y part of it, the Torment Nexus you could actually implement, is even sillier. You want your website… to have a storefront? Even in Second Life, shops were mostly full of low-prim kiosks you could browse from a mile away. And reinventing the limitations of objective three-dimensional space means your neighbors can be dicks. You’d have to ask what forum is south of Lemmy. And then hope they don’t block out your imaginary sunlight with a giant golden phallus.