So real that, for example, if your online avatar was hacked with a dangerous virus, you might experience actual brain damage. As it’s defined in the novel, the Metaverse is a hyper-real digital world. Despite different outlooks on the metaverse, there was one commonality: it’s about agency.ĮVE Online Becoming Whoever Or Whatever You Wantįollowing the release of Snow Crash, the word “metaverse” was thrown around just as haphazardly as it is today. Game Informer recently spoke to four different companies either developing metaverse games or developing game-related software. For him, the metaverse can be and should be so much more. Pétursson isn’t interested in this concept. Pétursson is alluding to an ongoing discourse that’s been brewing for years, heightened when social media giant Facebook changed its name to Meta back in October of last year and highlighted a possible work-focused metaverse. Then we wanted to build the 3D internet in VR, and if you look at the latest kind of sparked dialogue around the word ‘metaverse,’ it is almost like nothing has changed.” What we were basically envisioning was to take the internet to 3D, the web being the 2D internet. “It was the first wave of the metaverse hype, and there were plenty of companies doing this. “We basically had the whole concept of the in ,” Pétursson says. In conversation, you can sense the blasé outlook he has on the idea – not because he isn’t interested in it, but because they are the same ideas he’s heard shuffled in gaming circles since the 1992 release of Snow Crash, a foundational sci-fi novel that set a precedent (not necessarily the precedent) for what a metaverse could be, even going as far as to coin the word “metaverse.” They might be the commander of a space fleet igniting a war to colonize planets prime for resources, or they might be a simple trader on a peaceful planet.įor CCP CEO Hilmar Pétursson, conversations about the metaverse are nothing new. But long-running MMOs like CCP Games’ EVE Online might be just as close to what the metaverse may become: a virtual world where players become entirely different people living completely different lives. Of course, that’s not a reality at the moment and the closest something’s come might be Epic’s juggernaut free-to-play battle royale game, Fortnite. Or at least, that’s the most idealized vision of what the metaverse could be. The most commonly accepted version of the metaverse, though, is something that resembles Ready Player One where all of your favorite characters, friends, and family members interact with each other in a 3D virtual world. For others, it’s a virtual workspace or a digital version of the world we already live in. For some, it’s highly centralized around gaming, existing as an MMO-like experience.
Depending on who you ask, the metaverse could be any number of things.
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