That's funny because I've been in the #Metaverse for more than a year and a half now.

For before #MarkZuckerberg hijacked the term, it meant the entirety of all virtual worlds, whether they can connect with one another or not (and they generally can't). #SecondLife, #OpenSim, #Sansar or #Sinespace, also MMORPGs like #WorldOfWarcraft. So if anything, whatever #Zuckerberg is cooking up will be part of the Metaverse. And not THE Metaverse.

You don't believe me? But you believe Wikipedia, don't you? Now, if this article should happen to be rewritten to only be about 3-D #Facebook at some point in the future from the time I've posted this, this is what the same article looked like back then.

Also, it wasn't Zuckerberg who invented the world "Metaverse" anyway, it was Neal Stephenson in his novel Snow Crash. And that was in 1992. #PriorArt, anyone?

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(2) Breakroom Talks: Philip Rosedale & Adam Frisby on the Metaverse as a Shared Imagination - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9l5nm2XK6k

#virtual_worlds #unity3d #Sinespace #Open_world #Virtual_reality #MMO #Simulation

Breakroom Talks: Philip Rosedale & Adam Frisby on the Metaverse as a Shared Imagination

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