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    Everything about virtual worlds as landscapes seems to double down on it being just like the physical world and refuses to take advantage of the fact it isn't. It's 3D hyperlinking as topography, it's post-scarcity by default, it's massless and unbound by gravity.

    Instead of the 3D hacking seen in 90s movies, these metaverse peddlers give us flat terrain from horizon to horizon, subspaces occupying space on the landscape, and you have to walk across it all manually in a massless avatar with legs glued to the floor.

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    • It sort of has to be, if you have to sell it to the masses.jagara
    • The Metaverse is a hot mess!utopian
    • If you take away the virtual horizon and let people fly, they get sick and throw up.monospaced
    • Nonsense jag; we didn't need to sell the masses on links, which defy the conventions of books and letters.i_monk
    • A virtual horizon doesn't need a flat fake terrain. Where is the z-axis in these spaces? Perhaps full VR is a dead end, but maybe AR can salvage this.i_monk
    • The metaverse is misunderstood. It's not a 3D second life thing. It's *Everything* boiling down to lines of code and data.shapesalad
    • You sit a computer clicking buttons to earn money. You get paid, but it's not cash delivered to a vault, it's 01's in a computer. you pay online/via phone.shapesalad
    • You call and message online, you date online, you do everything online and pay with effetely crypto - even if it's £ and $'s, these days it is digital ledger.shapesalad
    • You don't need to plug your face into a VR headset to exist in a virtual landscape.shapesalad
    • Without the 3D/VR aspect it isn't a landscape anymore than the WWW is a digital autobahn.i_monk
    • We’ve done a lot of testing. If people aren’t grounded they quickly report feeling dizzy. Having a visual environment that’s “grounding” helps a lot.monospaced
    • This doesn’t mean you can’t have a z axis. Just means you might avoid them flying around in an environment that can cause disorientation.monospaced
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