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 for quite a few years now the concept of "cyberspace" included future visions of 3-Dimensional virtual reality well, such technology is indeed developing: croquet orientation video | |
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however, similar to the way that video on demand in every household is dependent upon the telecommunications bandwidth infrastructure to support it, in order for such 3-Dimensional Worlds of Virtual Reality to become as common place as today's standard internet access, it will require sufficient client side graphics processing capability (which would seem to be more then current off-the-shelf computers) the last industry standard for the PC platform performance requirements was last agreed upon many years before the current virtual worlds IBM, who introduced the IBM-PC computer hardware platform, has now sold off their PC interests to Lenovo, and I have not yet heard of any new initiative to redefine PC performance specs companies such as IBM and Sun are working toward developing software standards for interfaces between whatever 3D metaverses might evolve in the future a metaverse is where Real Life people interact with each other in virtual reality worlds real life people are able to choose and customize virtual avatars which represent them in such metaworlds bling such as jewelry, clothing, or sparkling special effects can be aquired to adorn such virtual avatars; such items will most likely require development of Certificate Authorities to facilitate avatar "passports" and to enable the transport of "suitcases" of object data references across metaversal boundaries (computer implementation platforms) Linden Labs has developed a virtual micro-currency system Linden Economics which raises issues of exchange of such virtual currencies across metaversal boundaries and the legal tender status of such vitual currencies it would seem that a lot of Real World problems will also require solution in the metaversal future: such as the real world problems which were raised by off shore online gambling operations, which called into question "pay-for-play" telephone bill charges, where real world cash would be deposited into cyber-casinos by billing telephone accounts via 900 numbers like all technology, it's sometimes difficult to understand how more advanced technology makes things better, like the cliche remote control with 50 function buttons, (which most people never use) which causes the volume and channel selection buttons to become lost in the sea of technological advancement; however the evolution towards decentralized work environments would seem to make such 3-Dimensional metaverses a valuable tool for such future distributed work environments |
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