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Why did the metaverse die? Because Silicon Valley doesn’t understand the concept of fun
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this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
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It never died, because it already existed for fucking years: Active Worlds from 1995 is where I started, Second Life later, now the dominant "metaverse" is VR Chat.
The corporate simpletons just never did their homework to see what the market is like for this.
The word is meaningless, nothing like the metaverse as described in snowcrash ever existed. If you’re talking about a multiplayer game that tries to mimic the real word then you’re right. But that’s not what the metaverse actually is…or what the word stood for, before being ripped to shreds as a buzzword.
Yeah they (Facebook) chose the word as a form of marketing to rebrand something that already existed. It's similar to how we went from "machine learning" to "AI".
That's the thing I hate: the word AI is being misused. It's not a buzzword, at least it wasn't supposed to be. It's artifical intelligence, not in the sense of having a brain but in the sense of being an intelligent algorithm solving an issue. The path finder algorithm A* (A Star) is in this group. Machine learning is a sub category of AI, nothing less.
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Even further back there was Lucasfilm's Habitat all the way back in 1986. It's kind of shocking how little the idea of the "Metaverse" has evolved since back then. It's still just some virtual space with avatars, different hats and chatting.
Wow how fascinating! Thanks for sharing that video.
Is SL still around? I left my partially nude Darth Vader wearing a banana thong in someone’s art gallery and haven’t been back
Exactly, they should have included fursonas IMMEDIATELY if they wanted it to work.
Even basic market research should have told them this.
I remember Blaxxun's Colony City i think even earlier than that. VRML is the future of the past!
Oh my god I remember this too. It looks like there's a revival project. https://www.cybertownrevival.com/