was introduced by Manticore Games. Competing Peak, a cloud-powered truth program starring AI participants in a virtual environment, debuted on Facebook Watch. Individuals or groups of viewers could straight add to an AI contestant's advancement in the show by seeing or engaging through Facebook. 2021 Legendary Games directs fundraising to build out into a metaverse.
2021 Facebook announces its effort at advancement of a Metaverse. 2021 South Korea announces the production of a nationwide metaverse alliance with the objective to develop a unified national VR and AR platform. Find More Details On This Page [modify] [modify] Stephenson's Metaverse appears to its users as an urban environment, established along a single hundred-meter-wide road, the Street, that runs the entire 65536 km (216 km) area of a featureless, black, perfectly spherical world.
Users of the Metaverse gain access to it through individual terminals that forecast a premium virtual reality display screen onto goggles used by the user, or from rough black and white public terminals in cubicles. Stephenson describes a sub-culture of people picking to stay constantly linked to the Metaverse; they are provided the sobriquet "gargoyles" due to their grotesque appearance.
Within the Metaverse, individual users look like avatars of any kind, with the sole constraint of height, "to avoid individuals from strolling around a mile high". Transport within the Metaverse is restricted 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 periods, and Local Ports, one kilometer apart.
During the events of, the presence of the Metaverse was revealed by Doctor Manhattan (), who arrived in the DC Universe and wondered about why history constantly changed around someone: Superman. Recognizing that this was a Metaverse and all changes within this universe impacted and affected other variations and alternate timelines (particularly the Multiverse), Manhattan tested what would take place if the Metaverse was altered by an outside source: himself, and by moving the Green Lantern a couple of inches away from Alan Scott, this led to Alan's death and the Justice Society of America never ever forming, hence developing The New 52 universe after the occasions of.