• lorty@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      People don’t associate Fortnite with that due to the main game being just pvp instanced deathmatches. But it is, by far, the most comprehensive example of what a corporate * metaverse would look like, specially now that they have their creative mode or whatever it’s called.

      *I know something like VR Chat or your favorite MMO with housing is closer to what people would want or imagine the metaverse to be, but that’s not what the buzzword is for the suits.

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        But it is, by far, the most comprehensive example of what a corporate * metaverse would look like,

        Roblox seems to fit that more than a pvp death match game with some events tacked on.

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      Funny thing is, a real life Metaverse has existed for over 20 years. The term Metaverse comes from a book called Snow Crash. The game Second Life was designed explicitly to be the Metaverse envisioned in Snow Crash, complete with it’s own economy tied to real life money (as in, if you made enough money in-game, you could cash it out for real-world USD). Companies used to build headquarters in the game world similar to how some do in Fortnite now, even going so far as to hold actual real world business meetings in-game as a form of teleconferencing. After a few high-profile events where live TV broadcasts of in-game events got swarmed by flying dicks, the media lost interest in the game, and companies abandoned the game and moved on to more business-oriented solutions.

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        Yeah I remember when Second life houses were sold for $1M usd. It was crazy and all years before other virtual marketplaces took off. It was ahead of its time and is now dead.

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      10 months ago

      When I hear about concerts, and hotels reproducing their entire layout inside of Fortnite, I can actually respect the comparison. Of course, I’ve also seen many advertised attempts at “maid cafes” within the residential districts of FFXIV, so there’s multiple people trying it - Fortnite is just the most well known.

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      If you take the Ready Player One’s example of a metaverse, that is, one where people get to cosplay their favorite famous media properties, I don’t think it’s a wrong assessment.

      Otherwise I would say VRChat is a much more honestly realized version of that.