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Discussion on: My in-game assets and I : Virtual Assets, one of the coolest things about the Metaverse.

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Jay Jeckel

So far the term Metaverse is still be established as various people have slightly different definitions, but the majority or a large group of people agree that Metaverses are typically powered by three core technologies; Blockchain, Web3 & Mediums of Access

That is completely incorrect. The Metaverse is an immersive VR environment as described by Neal Stephenson when he coined the term in the 1992 book Snow Crash. Anyone with a conflicting definition is, to be blunt, wrong. For example, no where in Snow Crash is blockchain, web3, or any other similar snake oil buzzwords mentioned, so, no, they are not part of the Metaverse, much less "core technologies" of it.

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Babatunde Fatai • Edited

Snow Crash was also set in a dystopian society and a million other things too. No one is designing the current Metaverse following Snow Crash (at least not anyone I know), the only thing taken from the book is the name (Metaverse ) and a few pointers on what not to do. Also, the Metaverse isn’t set in stones, people building are the ones defining what it would be like, not books from the 90s.