6/12/2023 0 Comments English to pidgin google translate![]() ![]() His Metaverse is not a portal to escape into an alternate reality. Using virtual and augmented reality technology developed over the last decade, and taking advantage of ever-cheaper storage and bandwidth, he is promoting a world which is exactly the opposite of earlier role-playing realities, including Second Life. Now, Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse is adding the secret sauce of mass market commerce. You could only buy a digital shirt there, not an Arrow shirt. Second Life was hot because it had ventured into commerce, but interest flagged because the products were purely digital. But it also ventured into virtual commerce with its own currency, the Linden dollar, which was used by entrepreneurs in Second Life to sell each other digital artefacts like clothes, accessories and homes. Its roots lie in role-playing games and like them, it was conceived as an escape mechanism for people tired of the limitations of brick and mortar. Scarily, they doubled as bouncers.įast-forward to Linden Lab’s Second Life, a world built by its inhabitants two decades ago. The most hospitable bots were bartenders serving virtual drinks. These were worlds built with words, like fantasy literature, in which bots hosted meets for people dialling in from the world over. The digital gathering is even older than the visual, browser-based internet, and dates back to ‘Multi-User Dungeons’ (a nod to Dungeons and Dragons), role-playing games which ran on command line clients. In 1992, Neal Stephenson’s novel Snow Crash suggested that the grey internet of the time, written in flat HTML-typically viewed in the Mosaic browser, or from a UNIX command line-would one day give way to a visually rich metaverse in which avatars interact with bots in a digital geography featuring gatherings like in the real world. But to old-timers on the net, it looks like bits and pieces of past worlds cobbled together, shined up and made commerce-ready. ![]() Mark Zuckerberg is selling his virtual space as the future, and has rebranded his enterprise to reflect the name. Instant, bi-directional oral translation would be the killer feature of the Metaverse, since the others are, individually, old hat. Facebook has open-sourced its work in the belief that other researchers will help take it forward.
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