Metaverse the Next Big Thing?

CrashPanic writes to tell us TCS Daily has an article entitled "The Next Big Thing" which is about Multiverse. It does a good job of making the case for the evolution to a 3D web through the lens of the past history of Netscape. From the article: "Forces are coalescing that will produce a shift comparable at least to the spread of broadband. This change will have enormous financial, cultural and political repercussions, and the most interesting aspect of the coming transformation is that it will not be some new and unexpected thing. Rather, the Web for many will become the cliched 3D virtual reality that has been so overused as a literary and cinematic devise that most of us have forgotten how compelling that vision was when it first appeared."

Bob?

[DaveCar]

Imagine how much more useful your computer experience would be if you were able to design a virtual office as large or complex as you needed, and reach anything in it without leaving your chair.

My God! They have invented Microsoft Bob!

Patrick Cox should stick to making shoes.

House!

[Channard]

Man, I love buzzword bingo.

Re:The Metaverse is not like the web

[Yetihehe]

Yes, and probably it will be named something like Second Life. Oh wait...

No.

[Rix]

C# client with a java server?

No.

Re:Yes but ...

[AcidLacedPenguiN]

I think the real problem here is that once we make the transition to a 3d virtual internet world, all those CS players will be running around shooting each other while we're at the cs_Office trying to get some damn work done. I don't want to work in a world where every 5 minutes we hear the bang of an AWP (and the subsequent "awpers r n00berz"), a constant "teams, teams, teams" and "teams are fine, teams are fine" all while getting frag and flash spammed. It just wouldn't be very productive.

Browse the internet ????

[gutnor]

Browse the internet to go on www.ibm.com. Search for drivers ? Old fashioned !!

The future is:

Connect to the new 3D virtua-net. Go to the nearest NetTube station next to your ISP building. Take the first Alphabetical Northbound metro on the COM line. Stop at station "I". Walk outside and take the NetBus to IBM Netplex. Ask politely the receptionist for the support area (Otherwise you will get kicked out by the security officer). Walk to the right departement (Hold SHIFT key to run), take the box with updated driver and bring it home. ( Check the driver is in your inventory before leaving )

Ah ... memories of ShadowRun with a sadistic GM

Re:It looks fine to me, thanks

[Khuffie]

Hey! Damn youths today! Everyone knows the internet went downhill after them animated gifs! You kids with your fancy torrents and goth music and videos coming from tubes...GET OFFA MAH LAWN!

Re:It looks fine to me, thanks

[ePhil_One]

Everyone knows the internet went downhill after them animated gifs!

Feh! The introduction of the blink tag signaled the downfall of the web to me!

Re:It looks fine to me, thanks

[somersault]

I think it started going downhill after parity bits - never mind spam, parity has been sucking up 12.5% of our bandwidth all these years!

That already happens today...

[StressGuy]

Last place I worked, my cubie was right in the crossfire of a major skirmish most of the time.

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/01/19/a-gatling-gun-th at-shoots-rubber-bands/ [ohgizmo.com]