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The first game in the Metaverse

Phil Edwards | October 11, 2024



So Facebook is now Meta, but the Metaverse is everywhere. What does that actually mean, and what might the history of the Metaverse mean for Facebook/Meta/everyone else?

Check out that post-mortem here: https://web.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Virtual_Worlds/LucasfilmHabitat.html

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  1. @Furiends

    October 11, 2024 at 4:17 am

    The "You can't trust anyone." wasn't very well discussed and I feel like might have been misleading. It can be more aptly phrased "Users are unpredictable." But this exists in relation to the fact the purpose of the virtual world is the users must have freedoms within the world. They must be able to create things and do novel things. And therefor this will have unintended outcomes. So there must be a separation between what users can expect to rely on within the world or the so called "infrastructure" of the virtual world.

  2. @KingfisherTalkingPictures

    October 11, 2024 at 4:17 am

    I’m sure someone else can find earlier versions, but the first artificial reality story with technological underpinnings I read was Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, by John Varley in 1976. His 7 worlds series has people shuttling their minds between bodies, and one person’s memories have a strange journey. I suppose Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream Also had people inside a computer simulation.

  3. @cactus_vixen7093

    October 11, 2024 at 4:17 am

    I love your video but I think its better to showcase sci-fi or just fiction in general that covers the 'metaverse' from a more grounded sense in the reality of AI and technology. Specifically the novel Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers comes to mind. It focuses more heavily on the cultural implications of simulated reality, the corruption of power in 'big tech', along with a lot of other themes outside of the sci-fi element of "fun virtual world". Snow crash is a great anticapitalist fantasy novel and it's fun to show just how much people completely miss the message of it, but there's a lot better fiction out there showing just how ridiculously damaging something like the metaverse would be if it where real and not approached with extreme caution

  4. @stephenhammonds2834

    October 11, 2024 at 4:17 am

    Excellent. "Don't trust anyone." The first encounter I had with meta or cyber or whatever was reading Harlan Ellison's "I have no mouth and I must scream." Teenage boy in the mid eighties and my impression was that the story was already 20 or 30 years old. I've never reread it, but it left a deep impression on me

  5. @BowWowVideo

    October 11, 2024 at 4:17 am

    Phil, have you considered a video about foreign investment in Silicon Valley? Zuck is in debt to the oligarchs in Russia, the same is true for other big profile companies. This would help explain many things that are happening to North America and the EU.

  6. @shableep

    October 11, 2024 at 4:17 am

    Neal Stephenson must feel real weird about reality right now. Also, the future killer app for VR, I imagine, will be an avatar system that everyone loves using, that's also interoperable between all game engines and platforms. Oddly enough, Meta is working on this and released a version recently. But is Meta just going to make the MySpace or Friendster of avatar systems? My guess is… yes. Who will be the Facebook of Avatar systems.

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