Futurama showed their version of the Metaverse (without using the name, but a 3D, Virtual Reality Internet) back in their third season:
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This part of the interview did caught my eye,
Some kind of mass market application seemed to be the answer — the equivalent of “I Love Lucy” or the “Ed Sullivan Show,” an entertainment product that would actually cause millions of people to go out and buy this hardware and bring the price down.
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Battlestar Galactica (the 2003-2009 series) had a short lived prequel, Caprica, 2010.
In this series, in Caprica before the Fall to the Cylons, there was a darker virtual world (almost a mirror image of Stephenson’s original Snow Crash) accessible through a special virtual reality hardware (Holobands), called New Cap City.
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It all started with … SnowCrash! In Neal Stephenson’s brilliant novel (personally, I had trouble stopping to read before the end at least) Snow Crash, he introduces us to something like a very futuristic Second Live.
For those that remember gopher and newsgroups in the early Internet years before there were browsers, this kinda represents yet another evolution on the Internet tools, and as such… not just probably, but maybe even desirable.
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