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A computer-based interactive 3D simulation, in which users take the form of avatars visible to others graphically

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Adam also writes articles for the website Secondlife.reuters.com, which also features a mix of virtual and real-life (known to many metaverse dwellers as "meatspace") news.

'Virtual' Journalism in an Online 'Second Life'

In Snow Crash's metaverse, the most powerful characters are those who can afford to purchase sophisticated avatar accessories and other virtual assets.

Virtual worlds: today and in the future

Alas, someone's messing with this Metaverse. Not only has a giant Raft appeared along the California coast, a Boat People biomass of tens of thousands of refugees all speaking in tongues, but a new drug, Snow Crash, is blowing the minds of the Macintosh programming "technomedia" priesthood.

Virtual Light

Learning in Metaverses: Co-Existing in Real Virtuality

Already a key member of the expanding Metaverse client services team, Izzy will continue to specialize in helping family-oriented brands build community and super engagement with customers and players online.

Izzy Neis Joins Metaverse Mod Squad as Director of Digital Engagement and Strategy

They thought museums should be connected together to form a "metaverse" of museums.

Pervasive gaming: testing future context aware applications

Neal Stephenson first imagined a completely virtual world in his 1992 novel, Snow Crash, calling it a Metaverse. (8) Stephenson's Metaverse was "a three-dimensional simulation of reality in cyberspace--where people lived, worked, and socialized." (9) Ever since, programmers have been creating their own versions of the Metaverse, using "increasingly sophisticated graphical interfaces." (10) Initially, these worlds were used solely for playing games, but now they have evolved into resources for research, education, politics, and work.

Taming the Wild West: solving virtual world disputes using non-virtual law

doesn't translate well into the metaverse. Giff Constable of the

Shakespeare in the metaverse

The conference proceedings include the following papers: (1) The Arts Metaverse in Open Croquet: Exploring an Open Source 3-D Online Digital World (Ulrich Rauch and Tim Wang); (2) Beyond World of Warcraft: the Universe of MMOGs (Ruben R.

Sparking Innovative Learning & Creativity. 2007 NMC Summer Conference Proceedings (Indianapolis, IN, Jun 6-9, 2007)

With two Japanese swords strapped to its belt, Hiro's avatar meanders through the barlike setting of the elite "Black Sun" area of the metaverse and pirates and sells information overheard in cyber-conversations.