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metaverse, n.
Brit. |ˈmɛtəvəːs|, U.S. |ˈmɛdəˌvərs|
[‹ meta- prefix + -verse (in universe n.). Compare earlier meta-universe n., multiverse n.]
1. Science Fiction and Computing. A computer-generated environment within which users can interact with one another and their surroundings, a virtual world; (more generally) the notional environment in which users of networked computers interact; = cyberspace n.
1992N. Stephenson Snow Crash iii. 22 Hiro spends a lot of time in the Metaverse. 1995Guardian (Nexis) 26 Sept. 13 What do you want to be doing in 15 years time? Living somewhere beautiful and remote, having passionate affairs via teledildonics, riding a big chopper through the metaverse? 2005Wired Oct. 59/7 (chart) Do real laws apply in the metaverse? Legal eagles and game geeks in Tribeca debate the future of virtual worlds. 2008Los Angeles Times 23 Mar. r7 Second Life..[is] a social networking service, amped up into a metaverse—a term swiped from sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson to describe virtual worlds.
2. = meta-universe n. 1.
1994P. Davies Last Three Minutes x. 138 With such cosmic fecundity, the assemblage of universes—or the metaverse, as it should really be called—might have no beginning or end. 2003Prospect Sept. 50/2 Is the universe just a four-dimensional ‘brane’ floating in a many-dimensional metaverse, like a skin of congealed milk on a cup of coffee? 2006Focus Nov. 86/1 Several theories for the origin of the Metaverse, the infinite number of universes that includes our own, are eloquently described by Paul Davies in his latest book. |