3D: The Metaverse

From ZDNet UK's Insight:

This week in Insight:

Experts met last week to discuss the development of the metaverse — an Internet dominated by 3D technology, social spaces and economies. Influential figures in video game design, geospatial engineering, high-tech research, software development, social networking,and telecommunications discussed the idea that the spread of online games, virtual worlds and services such as Google Earth and MySpace.com,means people may soon be spending more time, communicating and shopping more in complex 3D Web environments.

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