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[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Having only seen videos of VR Chat, your avatar can be a 6 foot penis or a anime girl or a skeleton with a trumpet. And I think Metaverse was trying to provide that for businesses and the general public?

How can you create a social hub where you can't be a 6 foot penis?

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The original concept was more or less a virtual shopping mall with a character creator. Imagine VR chat but made by EA.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

There will be a $12.99 monthly fee for imaging that

[–] tmyakal@infosec.pub 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I don't know how to tell you but Worlds Away was 20 years old... a decade ago.

!Released September 1995!<

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 points 3 days ago
[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Like it should be, as Neil Stephenson depicted it in Snowcrash, 1992...