The Metaverse
From Garden of Forking Paths to Walled Garden
Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta (formerly Facebook) to deliver a corporate-controlled, online, future-world “embodied internet.”
Notes
- 20220105 – Kate Wagner, of McMansion Hell, delivers a scathing critique of early metaverse interaction concepts: “what then, is the purpose of trying to sell us virtual reality? Perhaps, like NFTs, it’s a cynical cash grab, attracting big money from investors who think that the next big thing in tech is automatically, unquestioningly credible.” I have also hated that Meta “The Tiger & The Buffalo” advertising assult against Henri Rousseau.
- 20220105 – The Information claims that Meta has halted their VR and AR OS project as they wait to see what Apple has in store via their rumored AR glasses
- 20211028 – Facebook changed its name to, Meta and unveiled a vision for the Metaverse at their Connect 2021 conference
- 1941 – Jorge Luis Borges writes, The Garden of Forking Paths (El jardín de senderos que se bifurca), inspiring hypertext
Additional Metaverse Terms and Definitions
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- The experience created by overlaying virtual elements on a (usually 2D) depiction of the real world. Same as mixed reality. I first had my mind blown by this technology while a student at Drexel University in a Future of Digital Media class.
- Virtual Reality (VR)