Jupiter Rowland on Nostr: @Johannes Ernst "The Metaverse" as in new 3-D virtual world projects of the 2020s in ...
@Johannes Ernst "The Metaverse" as in new 3-D virtual world projects of the 2020s in general?
Or "The Metaverse" as in...
"Metaverse" and "The Metaverse" are registered trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc. All rights reserved.
...as in "Zuckerberg's Metaverse" as in "Facebook's Metaverse" as in "Meta's Metaverse" as in Horizons?
Jupiter Rowland schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Tue, 09 Jan 2024 22:02:29 +0100Stop calling it "The Metaverse" already!
Can everyone please with a cherry on top stop referring to Meta's virtual worlds as "the Metaverse"?
They're called "Horizons"!
Zuckerberg did not invent the Metaverse. Zuckerberg did not even invent the term; Neal Stephenson did in 1991. A Second Life in-world expo in the year 2007 was called "Metaverse". And the OpenSim community has been using the word "Metaverse" on a daily base down to grid names before 2010, too.
Thanks from someone who has been in OpenSim and thus known and used the term "Metaverse" in 2020 already in behalf of everyone in Second Life, OpenSim and all other virtual worlds that already existed before 2022.
P.S.: Second Life did not shut down in 2008 nor in 2009 either.
#Meta #Horizons #HorizonWorlds #HorizonWorldsIsNotTheMetaverse #Metaverse #TheMetaverse #SecondLife #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #VirtualWorlds #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost
Oh, and by the way, a finding of mine for those who still think Zuck was the first to slap "Metaverse" on an actual real 3-D world:
Jupiter Rowland schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Tue, 09 Jan 2024 23:13:36 +0100"Metaverse". Used in OpenSim since 2007.
Something for those who think Mark Zuckerberg has invented the term "Metaverse" in 2021.
OSgrid, the oldest OpenSimulator grid (est. 2007), is referring to itself as "The Open Source Metaverse". Guess what? It has taken over that slogan from OpenSim itself, and OpenSim has described itself as such in 2007 already.
Metropolis, the first German grid (est. 2008), boldly used the full name "Metropolis Metaversum" until it was officially shut down in summer 2022. It already did so as early as 2008.
Since I started out in Metropolis on April 30th, 2020, I was in something called Metaverse almost a year and a half before Zuckerberg used that term.
Another fun fact: The virtual worlds/virtual reality news site Hypergrid Business has named its OpenSim category "Metaverse" as early as 2010.
#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Metropolis #OSgrid
For the record: Yes, I know it was Neal Stephenson who coined that term in 1991 already.
#Meta #Horizons #HorizonWorlds #HorizonWorldsIsNotTheMetaverse #Metaverse #TheMetaverse #SecondLife #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #VirtualWorlds #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost
Or "The Metaverse" as in...
"Metaverse" and "The Metaverse" are registered trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc. All rights reserved.
...as in "Zuckerberg's Metaverse" as in "Facebook's Metaverse" as in "Meta's Metaverse" as in Horizons?
Jupiter Rowland schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Tue, 09 Jan 2024 22:02:29 +0100Stop calling it "The Metaverse" already!
Can everyone please with a cherry on top stop referring to Meta's virtual worlds as "the Metaverse"?
They're called "Horizons"!
Zuckerberg did not invent the Metaverse. Zuckerberg did not even invent the term; Neal Stephenson did in 1991. A Second Life in-world expo in the year 2007 was called "Metaverse". And the OpenSim community has been using the word "Metaverse" on a daily base down to grid names before 2010, too.
Thanks from someone who has been in OpenSim and thus known and used the term "Metaverse" in 2020 already in behalf of everyone in Second Life, OpenSim and all other virtual worlds that already existed before 2022.
P.S.: Second Life did not shut down in 2008 nor in 2009 either.
#Meta #Horizons #HorizonWorlds #HorizonWorldsIsNotTheMetaverse #Metaverse #TheMetaverse #SecondLife #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #VirtualWorlds #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost
Oh, and by the way, a finding of mine for those who still think Zuck was the first to slap "Metaverse" on an actual real 3-D world:
Jupiter Rowland schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Tue, 09 Jan 2024 23:13:36 +0100"Metaverse". Used in OpenSim since 2007.
Something for those who think Mark Zuckerberg has invented the term "Metaverse" in 2021.
OSgrid, the oldest OpenSimulator grid (est. 2007), is referring to itself as "The Open Source Metaverse". Guess what? It has taken over that slogan from OpenSim itself, and OpenSim has described itself as such in 2007 already.
Metropolis, the first German grid (est. 2008), boldly used the full name "Metropolis Metaversum" until it was officially shut down in summer 2022. It already did so as early as 2008.
Since I started out in Metropolis on April 30th, 2020, I was in something called Metaverse almost a year and a half before Zuckerberg used that term.
Another fun fact: The virtual worlds/virtual reality news site Hypergrid Business has named its OpenSim category "Metaverse" as early as 2010.
#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Metropolis #OSgrid
For the record: Yes, I know it was Neal Stephenson who coined that term in 1991 already.
#Meta #Horizons #HorizonWorlds #HorizonWorldsIsNotTheMetaverse #Metaverse #TheMetaverse #SecondLife #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #VirtualWorlds #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost