This is rather a funny and at times interesting look at the future of online games/metaverses. I am surprised they don't mention or know of SL, since many of the things discussed in the article is happening here:
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/wowworld.html
My favorite quote from the article:
"In the future, long after World of Warcraft has gone the way of ARPANET, everyone will have a virtual-world twin. An upgraded, digital representative of yourself which I'll henceforth refer to as Awesome You. And you'll see a time in your life when more people know Awesome You than know the real you. Some people live like that already.
.......The joy of experiencing life as Awesome You, as the stronger, handsomer avatar of yourself, will take all of those activities to another plane of cool. The casinos will be there, the movies will play there, concerts will be performed there. The metaverse will stop being a playhouse and will start becoming the interface through which we interact with reality. And every step you take will be as Awesome You. Cool, beautiful, confident. "
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Snowcrash Hoffman
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08-15-2005 07:08
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Seldon Metropolitan
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08-15-2005 07:16
awesome article. I <3 teh metaverse.
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Ingrid Ingersoll
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08-15-2005 07:18
.......The joy of experiencing life as Awesome You, as the stronger, handsomer avatar of yourself, will take all of those activities to another plane of cool. The casinos will be there, the movies will play there, concerts will be performed there. The metaverse will stop being a playhouse and will start becoming the interface through which we interact with reality. And every step you take will be as Awesome You. Cool, beautiful, confident. " That is great. Funny stuff and probably dead on. _____________________
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Cristiano Midnight
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08-15-2005 07:45
Thank you so much for posting this article - it is dead on, and extremely funny. I think this is my favorite part:
We can imagine somebody working full-time to gather in-game gold by slaying gold-shitting squirrels (or whatever you do to get gold in the game) and then exchanging it for real dollars to pay the real rent with. _____________________
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Cocoanut Koala
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08-15-2005 11:32
Haven't read it yet, and no time at the moment, but I LOVE the term, "Awesome You."
So apt! And I think it is likely that by now more people DO know Awesome Me than know Real Me. coco |
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blaze Spinnaker
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08-15-2005 11:39
I disagree. I think virtual reality will be used less for socializing and more for getting things done (school, work, etc).
Who really wants to spend their leisure time in the metaverse? That's just a great way to get a heart attack at an early age. _____________________
Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :
"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches." |
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Cocoanut Koala
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08-15-2005 13:07
Seems to me that we're all doing that already, Blaze.
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08-15-2005 21:31
I missed the e3 buzz because of my busy schedule, but I saw a link to this article:
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141783 mmm mmm VR _____________________
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Psyra Extraordinaire
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08-15-2005 22:19
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You don't have permission to access /games/wowworld.html on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Bahhhh.  _____________________
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Snowcrash Hoffman
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08-16-2005 12:12
Forbidden You don't have permission to access /games/wowworld.html on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Bahhhh. The link works fine for me, are you still having trouble accessing? |
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Psyra Extraordinaire
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08-16-2005 12:19
Managed to get it. :>
Strangely enough, my Firefox and Opera refuses to load it, giving that error. I had to bring back IE from the dead. x.x _____________________
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