was released by Manticore Games. Competing Peak, a cloud-powered reality program starring AI contestants in a virtual environment, debuted on Facebook Watch. A Good Read or groups of viewers could straight add to an AI candidate's improvement in the program by viewing or engaging through Facebook. 2021 Impressive Games directs fundraising to build out into a metaverse.
2021 Facebook reveals its attempt at development of a Metaverse. 2021 South Korea reveals the creation of a national metaverse alliance with the goal to develop a unified national VR and AR platform. Fiction [modify] [modify] Stephenson's Metaverse appears to its users as an metropolitan environment, developed along a single hundred-meter-wide roadway, the Street, that runs the whole 65536 km (216 km) circumference of a featureless, black, perfectly spherical world.
Users of the Metaverse gain access to it through personal terminals that predict a high-quality virtual truth display screen onto safety glasses worn by the user, or from rough black and white public terminals in cubicles. Stephenson describes a sub-culture of people picking to remain continuously connected to the Metaverse; they are provided the sobriquet "gargoyles" due to their grotesque appearance.
Within the Metaverse, specific users look like avatars of any form, with the sole limitation of height, "to avoid individuals from walking a mile high". Transport within the Metaverse is limited to analogs of truth by foot or automobile, such as the monorail that runs the entire length of the Street, stopping at 256 Express Ports, situated evenly at 256 km intervals, and Local Ports, one kilometer apart.
Throughout the occasions of, the presence of the Metaverse was discovered by Doctor Manhattan (), who showed up in the DC Universe and was curious about why history constantly changed around a single person: Superman. Understanding that this was a Metaverse and all modifications within this universe affected and influenced other variations and alternate timelines (particularly the Multiverse), Manhattan tested what would happen if the Metaverse was changed by an outside source: himself, and by moving the Green Lantern a few inches away from Alan Scott, this led to Alan's death and the Justice Society of America never ever forming, thus producing The New 52 universe after the events of.