THE FUTURE HISTORY OF THE METAVERSE

What is this?

The metaverse as we imagine it today is largely a result of pop cultural influences, especially from science fiction. The term itself comes from a sci-fi novel (Snow Crash), and our idea of VR and "metaverse worlds" often comes from movies like e.g. Ready Player One. The reason these works influence us so strongly and seem so potentially realistic is because they have an internal logic based on very good worldbuilding. Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world, that once finished serves as the background for telling compelling stories. It means developing an imaginary setting with coherent qualities such as a history, geography, and ecology. The purpose of this server is to document the results of a worldbuilding process imagining all aspects of a fully developed metaverse in the year of 2052. In other words: we want to write the future history of the metaverse now!

We understand the "Metaverse", according to Matthew Ball, as a massively scaled and interoperable network of real-time rendered 3D virtual worlds which can be experienced synchronously and persistently by an effectively unlimited number of users with an individual sense of presence, and with continuity of data, such as identity, history, entitlements, objects, communications, and payments. And we will ask ourselves: How will society, politics, economy, technology and culture look like in a world strongly influenced by such a setting.

Like any good author, we want to start this process by collecting ideas and refining them step by step, giving impulses and imagining fragments that help us to imagine this future world. And maybe someday we will succeed in tying together, individually or as a group, all the ideas we have imagined here. Maybe one of us or a group of enthusiasts will write a book, some short stories, a novel, construct a VR experience or develop a game. We will see. For now, though, we'll just let our imaginations run wild and think about what our future might look like if the Metaverse was to become real.   Source Metaverse Definition: https://bit.ly/3H6kpzx