Sorting Out the Metaverse and How the Metaverse Is Sorting Us Out
Isto Huvila · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2013
The idea of virtual realities and the metaverse as an ultimate form of information carrier is as old as the idea of immersive technologically mediated experience. The consequences of a cognitively unlimited access to information and enhanced capability to know and experience our surroundings have been perceived in both Utopian and dystopian terms, but the basic capacity of virtual realities and of the broader metaversal reality to integrate man with information has often been cited as a plain practical fact (Bouchlaghem et al., 1996; Soon et al, 1999). This essentially instrumental point of view has been suggested to reduce the metaverse to a tool (or a medium) and the act of integrating human beings with information to an essentially solvable technical problem.