Where did you get that idea? Corporations are definitely hijacking the term, but it's been used since before Facebook and crypto grifters got into it. Like this 2007 article about Second Life.
Again Second Life was called a metaverse years before modern VR existed. That's been the definition of the term for a long while and greedy fucks butting in doesn't change it.
oh I was quibbling over the definition from the start. Yeah whoever said that knows about Second Life and VR Chat, but those aren't what they want the definition to be. They're hijacking the term.
Umm...you can buy things from other people in Second Life and VRchat. Furniture, Avatars, accessories, houses, land (at least in the case of SL land is sold by the company that runs it, not sure if this is a thing at all in VRC) can all be bought and sold user to user. It just doesn't involve shitty NFTs.
Idk what oeer to peer material connection means but vr chat and second life both fit the definition of the metaverse as it was coined and used for forty years before bazinga capitalists "invented" it.
the term metaverse was invented for a 40 year old scifi cyberpunk dystopia novel, so I think it's closer to say corporations are trying to reclaim the word
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It's definitionally a metaverse.
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Where did you get that idea? Corporations are definitely hijacking the term, but it's been used since before Facebook and crypto grifters got into it. Like this 2007 article about Second Life.
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Again Second Life was called a metaverse years before modern VR existed. That's been the definition of the term for a long while and greedy fucks butting in doesn't change it.
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oh I was quibbling over the definition from the start. Yeah whoever said that knows about Second Life and VR Chat, but those aren't what they want the definition to be. They're hijacking the term.
Umm...you can buy things from other people in Second Life and VRchat. Furniture, Avatars, accessories, houses, land (at least in the case of SL land is sold by the company that runs it, not sure if this is a thing at all in VRC) can all be bought and sold user to user. It just doesn't involve shitty NFTs.
Idk what oeer to peer material connection means but vr chat and second life both fit the definition of the metaverse as it was coined and used for forty years before bazinga capitalists "invented" it.
the term metaverse was invented for a 40 year old scifi cyberpunk dystopia novel, so I think it's closer to say corporations are trying to reclaim the word
I think Neil Stephenson coined the term metaverse in Snow Crash back in the 90s.
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