<story><title>Who is still inside the metaverse?</title><url>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>irrational</author><text>Has anyone actually met anyone who has visited the metaverse? Admittedly, I don’t live in SV (or CA), but I do know a lot of developers, tech people, nerds, etc. and none of them have visited the metaverse. I keep assuming it doesn’t actually exist yet. It’s like a story of this far off land that people have heard of, but nobody has actually visited.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>explaininjs</author><text>There is no &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; metaverse currently, but there are many metaverses. The definition itself is shaky and contradictory across sources. But to summarize, a metaverse is a &amp;quot;set of digital spaces that you can move seamlessly between&amp;quot;, it will include &amp;quot;familiar 2D experiences, as well as ones projected into the physical world and fully immersive 3D ones too&amp;quot;. It can be accessed via your phone or computer, or a VR reset for &amp;quot;full immersion&amp;quot;. Fortnite is a metaverse, but some say Roblox and Minecraft aren&amp;#x27;t. I couldn&amp;#x27;t tell you how that distinction was drawn.&lt;p&gt;My favorite metaverse is RuneScape, but I unfortunately haven&amp;#x27;t visited in a decade or more. Steam might also be considered a metaverse. Which would imply Xbox Online and all that are too.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&amp;#x2F;words-at-play&amp;#x2F;meaning-of-metaverse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&amp;#x2F;words-at-play&amp;#x2F;meaning-of-met...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;about.meta.com&amp;#x2F;what-is-the-metaverse&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;about.meta.com&amp;#x2F;what-is-the-metaverse&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;paultassi&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;fortnites-epic-games-makes-a-metaverse-investment-to-scale-up-even-further&amp;#x2F;?sh=3a9105d2cfd0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;paultassi&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;fortnites-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Who is still inside the metaverse?</title><url>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>irrational</author><text>Has anyone actually met anyone who has visited the metaverse? Admittedly, I don’t live in SV (or CA), but I do know a lot of developers, tech people, nerds, etc. and none of them have visited the metaverse. I keep assuming it doesn’t actually exist yet. It’s like a story of this far off land that people have heard of, but nobody has actually visited.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tfandango</author><text>One day in the middle of the day I visited the &amp;quot;Soapstone comedy club&amp;quot; world in Horizon Worlds.  People were actually taking turns going on stage and telling jokes. Then in the course of general conversation, one person said she wrote and sang songs and someone asked her to get on the stage and sing.  She did, and it was beautiful, almost a magic moment of discovery. Afterward she told us that she was a twin who recently met her brother and both were into music so they formed a band.  The band is called Cave Twins and the song was &amp;quot;A Little Longer&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the one redeeming moment in Horizon Worlds that I have had. I continue to check in once a month or so but have had no other meaningful interactions since.</text></comment>