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was released by Manticore Games. Competing Peak, a cloud-powered truth show starring AI participants in a virtual environment, debuted on Facebook Watch. Individuals or groups of audiences could straight add to an AI candidate's improvement in the show by watching or engaging through Facebook. 2021 Epic Games directs fundraising to develop out into a metaverse.
2021 Facebook reveals its effort at advancement 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 [edit] [edit] Stephenson's Metaverse appears to its users as an city environment, established along a single hundred-meter-wide roadway, the Street, that runs the whole 65536 km (216 km) area of a featureless, black, completely round world.
Users of the Metaverse gain access to it through individual terminals that predict a top quality virtual reality display onto safety glasses worn by the user, or from grainy black and white public terminals in booths. This Is Cool explains a sub-culture of people selecting to remain constantly connected to the Metaverse; they are given the sobriquet "gargoyles" due to their grotesque appearance.
Within the Metaverse, individual users appear as avatars of any kind, with the sole constraint of height, "to avoid people from walking a mile high". Transportation within the Metaverse is limited to analogs of reality by foot or vehicle, such as the monorail that runs the entire length of the Street, stopping at 256 Express Ports, located evenly at 256 km intervals, and Regional Ports, one kilometer apart.
Throughout the events of, the existence of the Metaverse was revealed by Physician Manhattan (), who got here in the DC Universe and was curious about why history continuously changed around someone: Superman. Understanding that this was a Metaverse and all changes within this universe affected and influenced other variations and alternate timelines (particularly the Multiverse), Manhattan evaluated what would happen if the Metaverse was changed by an outdoors 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 creating The New 52 universe after the events of.