ChuckChuckRazul t1_j99m5v0 wrote on February 20, 2023 at 8:25 AM

So we rebranding old Games as the metaverse now to give this empty marketing term meaning and making it appear that something like the metaverse can be a success?

Daaru_ t1_j99r47l wrote on February 20, 2023 at 9:34 AM

Anything can be a metaverse with a large enough marketing department

y2kizzle t1_j99sm2z wrote on February 20, 2023 at 9:56 AM

I'm a metaverse

ChuckChuckRazul t1_j99tnan wrote on February 20, 2023 at 10:10 AM

Yeah your mom loves you, but she is not a marketing department.

y2kizzle t1_j99vawa wrote on February 20, 2023 at 10:34 AM

I'm supernintendo Chalmers

MountainScorpion t1_j9be5ta wrote on February 20, 2023 at 6:12 PM

Look at me:

I am the Metaverse now.

chromeshiel t1_j9alnv4 wrote on February 20, 2023 at 3:01 PM

I think it's rather because they offer a glimpse of what the "metaverse" could be. Even if it is still kissing the point of what the metaverse (or any better name for it) is.

daerath t1_j99t39t wrote on February 20, 2023 at 10:02 AM

Pretty much. Same thing happened with Cloud providers. Term was coined, and then they started saying they've been in the cloud "for years".

Moe_Capp t1_j9brk35 wrote on February 20, 2023 at 7:38 PM

I would make the claim that Active Worlds is actually the oldest online metaverse platform, launched 28 years ago. It is like a very early version of Second Life, which came out several years later.