Após o colapso do governo, o país se dividiu em cidades-estado controladas por corporações privadas, mafiosos e mercenários de todo tipo. NEW Em um futuro distópico, os Estados Unidos como o conhecemos não existe mais. The first sentence: “It all started with Snow Crash.”
He then worked at companies like Microsoft (again) and Intel until 2011 when he joined Valve to work on AR and VR.Īfter joining Valve, Abrash wrote a blog post explaining his history. Together they developed Quake - one of the first widely popular online multiplayer FPS games. After reading Snow Crash, he quit Microsoft and joined John Carmack at Id. He had helped develop the core graphics architecture of Windows. In 1994, Abrash was working at Microsoft. He also reportedly co-leads Facebook’s new AR glasses team. That’s the division of Facebook which researches future VR and AR tech. Michael Abrash is the chief scientist at Facebook Reality Labs. The descriptions of avatars in Snow Crash still apply to proto-metaverses like VRChat today. The book also popularized the term “avatar” - the virtual character which represents a user in a virtual world. The few which existed cost in excess of $50,000 and had resolutions of just a few hundred pixels on each axis. When the book was written almost 30 years ago, VR headsets were rare. Thus a ‘metaverse’ is a new universe beyond and after the real one. “Meta” means after or beyond, and “verse” is taken from universe. Essentially, the metaverse is the spatial version of the internet. SCEU focuses on content R&D, pushing the boundaries on what can be developed in AR, figuring out best practices, and providing examples to developers.ĭespite being released before even Wolfenstein 3D and three years before the Virtual Boy, much of Snow Crash takes place in a massively multiplayer VR world called the Metaverse - a term Stephenson coined. His official title is “chief futurist.” He manages a team called the Self-Contained Existence Unit (SCEU). Last we heard, Stephenson works at AR startup Magic Leap.
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