• @online@lemmy.ml
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    02 years ago

    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.

    • @fer0n@lemm.ee
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      02 years ago

      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.

      • @online@lemmy.ml
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        02 years ago

        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”.