“Virtual real estate” is a concept disproved by saying it out loud.
It’s just fancy word for buying ad space on a website.
It gets dumber and weirder than that.
Source: I have a 2004 Second Life account.
Second life was so ahead of it’s time.
The trolling when the first second life millionaire hosted a forum in second life, and some whimsical idiots made 100s of literal flying dicks dive bomb the conference.
Meta spending billions on legs when the real answer was right there in front of them.
Unlease the dicks.
Unlease…
Hah
And what everyone I knew there wanted was a version they could run and organize themselves, to avoid renting six triangles at a digital trailer park.
Sounds like there needs to be a fediLife. Want virtual property? Host it yourself. Or find someone kind enough to carve off a chunk of theirs and let you use it
So, any text or image host, but bringing back VRML.
I’m all for it. An open schema for federated VR . Would probably need to be more than just a model of the space, as the server would need to host users, but that’s just a matter of hacking VRChat at this point
There’s no place like virtual real estate.
I mean, “virtual reality” is a thing.
So is fiction.
It’s the invisible virtual hand of the free meta market.
Initially I had high hopes for VR.
(before I realized how capitalists were going to take over and completely ruin it like they do with every other single fucking thing).
Lawnmower Man 2 might have been a shit movie but the whole concept of dystopian capitalist VR cyberspace was actually not far off, conceptually
SAO but boring
Just SAO then am I right
Y’know, I always found it fuckin weird that SAO plays with the idea that somebody would create an MMO where there is one DPS in the entire fuckin game. And then turn that DPS into a girl for their next game.
The game itself was kinda dumb. Melee only is kinda dumb, and it only exists so everyone doesn’t immediately go stealth archer or mage.
Basically all of those types of stories have to throw game design out the window. The goals of your standard fantasy protagonist ‘be the chosen one’ go directly counter to what makes a successful game. Imagine if WoW had random chances for a tiny fraction of players to role some Uber OP class or skill that utterly dominated everyone else. And everyone else was just expected to keep playing to be side characters to that one guys character.
So… the Jedi in Star Wars Galaxies.
Realistically, it could only be a hacker in that role, which might work.
I remember in The Matrix (1999) there was some explanation about how they tried to create a utopia but nobody accepted it so instead they created the hellscape known as capitalist America circa 2199. You could have made anything and you made this garbage lol.
It’s because it’s the time period when the capitalists found the sweet spot of giving people a good enough life to not revolt, but not good enough to let them get ahead.
That’s not what they said. They made the Matrix the 1990’s, the pinnacle of human civilization.
In hindsight, it’s surprising that Smith didn’t namedrop “the end of history.”
Morpheus refers to the scorched Earth using a line from Baudrillard. And IIRC originally made much clearer reference to simulacra, in a way that would have pissed off a generation of philosophy professors by being incorrect. I suppose they’d eventually recover by saying “It’s more like Inception,” because nobody saw Existenz.
Nice Video about the Metaverse: (From Golding Ideas)
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🎶 “I-i-i just bought more land in the metaverse~” 🎶
Nice meta-and you got that. It would be a shame is someone was to own it and charge rent.
