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  • noun Plural form of metaverse.

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Examples

  • Wright describes the worlds he creates as "metaverses," a synonym for virtual reality drawn from Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel

    The Walrus Magazine 2009

  • I will give the introductory talk on education in the Metaverse, covering SL but also other metaverses such as Open Croquet.

    Archive 2007-06-10 Milosun Czervik 2007

  • The predominant issue I have with Snow Crash inherited metaverses like SL, is that I don't really see them being a good tool for anything other than casual use, much less collaboration.

    Collaboration in the Virtual World 2008

  • For me the hope is that the widespread knowledge and awareness of what could be possible with metaverses has reached into many other places in this adoption cycle.

    A New Virtual World Winter? 2008

  • Not Possible IRL: Someday... a galaxy of metaverses skip to main

    Someday... a galaxy of metaverses Bettina Tizzy 2007

  • Whilst metaverses based on game technology get dead serious when they are your job, games can still be games.

    August 2007 2007

  • Croquet is a powerful open source software development environment for the creation and large-scale distributed deployment of multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses that are (1) persistent (2) deeply collaborative, (3) interconnected and (4) interoperable.

    The frontier of education: Web 3D 2007

  • Virtual worlds and metaverses add a more human connection and allows the less technically profecient to engage with one another, as have blogs and IM.

    Do virtual worlds liberate us? 2007

  • Croquet is a powerful open source software development environment for the creation and large-scale distributed deployment of multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses that are (1) persistent (2) deeply collaborative, (3) interconnected and (4) interoperable.

    Going Qwaqqers About Qwaq glyn moody 2007

  • Croquet is a powerful open source software development environment for the creation and large-scale distributed deployment of multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses that are (1) persistent (2) deeply collaborative, (3) interconnected and (4) interoperable.

    Archive 2007-03-01 glyn moody 2007

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