What Is It
First, there there were the Books!
Now… the future of tech and maybe even society itself? Matthew Bell wrote what I believe is the best introduction to what is meant by The Metaverse in 2020.
With credits to Matthew Bell’s article above, these are the 7 principles, as he envisioned, of the Stephenson-Bell Metaverse:
- Be persistent, the world never ends
- Be synchronous, the Metaverse will exist with a parallel time line of the “real life”
- No limit of the number of people in the Metaverse
- It will have it’s own economy
- It will have private and public areas; “walled gardens” and more messy, public areas
- Data will be able to be used across those private and public areas; A car from Rocket League could be used in Roblox, for example
- Like the real world, content and experiences will be created by a wide range of contributors, from independent individuals to companies.
Again, thank you for Matthew Bell and his excellent work above.