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And googling does provide answers. Watching the Microsoft video (a horrid video BTW) I see disembodied avatars missing everything from the waist down (like legs and feet, don't get any other ideas!) doing things that we would normally do in person or outdoors, but not anymore.
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My personal take on the metaverse, about which I know nothing except it's a sort of brand name from Facebook, is that I will be content to ignore it until the time its usefulness or necessity will make itself obvious to me...
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It's an alternate Red vs. Blue reality where the Meta lives.
Just kidding...
It's the world you would live in if you lived in a VR world.
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David? Is that you?
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If 42 is the answer to life, and we see life in a 2 dimensional realm(despite reality being 3D)
We must square 42
1764, the answer to life the universe and everything in a 4d realm is 1764
I rest my case...
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Hmm, wouldn't it be the 2/3 root of 42? Or would it be (n-1)/n where n is the ACTUAL number of dimensions we live in but can't seem to get a grasp on?
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Heh,
Pretty sure he was referring to me. The mention of the word Red has several members believing that guy has something to do with me.
Apophenia[^] or something I guess.
Site is full of nutters, they think the men in Black Red are hacking them.
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42
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Remember SecondLife?
Had its own currency and everything.
Real estate grabs, big companies having support offices, etc
Everything seems circular. This why I prefer to surf on the back of the hype cycle. So much garbage folds in 3 years.
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The only thing I know about Second Life, is that the accountant from The Office played it, or something like that...
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It's probably a rebranding of Limbo
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V. wrote: It's probably a rebranding of Limbo Purgatory
FTFY
(We're getting a bit too close to religious arguments...)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: (We're getting a bit too close to religious arguments...)
Not at all. When anything that warrants divine intervention happens, a deity simply hops onto your desk and sits on your keyboard, blocks your view of the screen or plays with your mouse.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I knew Europe was becoming less Christian, but I never thought that you'd started worshiping Bastet
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You don't have a choice. One day you open the door and see a little suitcase on the doorstep. When you go back inside, you see the owner of that suitcase already on your most comfortable chair, waiting for the first meal to be served.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I think that they're aiming at something like OASIS from Ready Player One.
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
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It's like conventional VR, but instead of it being about playing a game it's about fArsebook spying on everything you do to be more stalkerish than they already are.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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The way I translate it in understandable terms is a VR open-world game in which everyone can buy land and build virtual stuff with real money, interact with other avatars, exchange said virtual stuff.
Basically a Matrix built for corporate greed, where you can rent a spot in Times Square for a kidney and a half or a spot under a dirty bridge for a few cents, but it's in VR! (and FacebookMeta will happily take a commission from each and every transaction in this world)
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my take on that the Avatar thing might make sense: video cameras only do so much, and some upper body gestures might be missed
Since semi real avatars would be overly process intense, characters reduce uncanny valley issues and still allows for enough personalisation to fit most individuals
as to why - because some groups think sharing space is nice, which ignore a bunch which just want give me the tasks you want me to do, and ill do them and done. none of this group activity stuff
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I'm actually moving in the opposite direction to get invasive tech out of my life.
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The Websters dictionary defines the Metaverse as a virtual world full of creeps and peeping toms lorded over by the creep king.
[citation needed]
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In it's ultimate incarnation, it's the Matrix. Live (what you call) your life virtually.
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