{"id":74637,"date":"2023-02-25T10:59:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T08:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=74637"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:18:09","slug":"the-creator-of-the-term-metaverse-discusses-the-future-of-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/the-creator-of-the-term-metaverse-discusses-the-future-of-virtual-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"The creator of the term &#8216;metaverse&#8217; discusses the future of virtual reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science-fiction author Neal Stephenson, in an interview with the <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0ecab009-6543-4386-b936-0eecc9293d2e\\\">Financial Times<\/a>, outlined the conditions for metaverse popularity and spoke about the future of virtual reality.<\/p>\n<p>He questioned the prospects of the technology until people themselves decide to live in a digital world. To do this, a unique &#8220;experience that millions will deem worthy&#8221; will be needed to venture into the metaverse.<\/p>\n<p>According to Stephenson, achieving such a level is extremely difficult. As an example of a successful realization of a virtual world, he cited the 2021 video game Valheim. It is a survival-in-an-open-world simulator that is procedurally generated with every playthrough\u2014locations never repeat.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>&#8220;I think that people who spend a lot of time in games, especially in multiplayer ones, get used to the idea of moving in shared three-dimensional spaces. Undoubtedly, this is the most basic idea of the metaverse,&#8221; Stephenson said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also acknowledged the existence of games in which high-quality worlds are manually crafted. However, the writer is convinced that in the case of the metaverse, full freedom of action and decentralization will be required.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in February, Sotheby\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sothebys-to-auction-neal-stephensons-snow-crash-manuscript-with-first-mention-of-the-term-metaverse\">displayed<\/a> Neal Stephenson\u2019s Snow Crash manuscript. In the 1992 work, the term &#8216;metaverse&#8217; presumably first appeared.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2022 Stephenson <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/creator-of-the-term-metaverse-announces-cryptocurrency-startup\">announced<\/a> the launch of his own Lamina1 blockchain, aimed at virtual worlds and augmented reality. The project also involves former Bitcoin Foundation president Peter Vessenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science-fiction author Neal Stephenson told the Financial Times about the conditions for metaverse popularity and the future of virtual reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1353,1138,1361],"class_list":["post-74637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-metaverses","tag-opinions","tag-virtual-world-innovations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74639,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74637\/revisions\/74639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}