Metaverse Roadmap
The Metaverse Roadmap
URL = http://metaverseroadmap.org/index.html
"Taking its name from the immersive virtual world imagined by Neal Stephenson in his visionary novel, Snow Crash, the Metaverse Roadmap (MVR) is the first public ten-year forecast and visioning survey of 3D Web technologies, applications, markets, and potential social impacts. Areas of exploration include the convergence of Web applications with networked computer games and virtual worlds, the use of 3D creation and animation tools in virtual environments, digital mapping, artificial life, and the underlying trends in hardware, software, connectivity, business innovation and social adoption that will drive the transformation of the World Wide Web in the coming decade."
More Information
Scenarios for the future, at http://www.metaverseroadmap.org/MetaverseRoadmapOverview.pdf