MetaVerse
the Virtual World from SnowCrash, or a more general conception of the same thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse
http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Metaverse
The Metaverse Roadmap group hoped (2006) to define a process of getting to a widespread MetaVerse implementation.
- they have a wiki for drafting their document
ActiveWorlds is a "big" player here. (Ron Britvich, Alpha World, Worlds Inc) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Worlds
- still active 2020!
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