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10.12.07The Future is a Barbie DollFor all my talk of immersive, virtual and mirror worlds, the future is in some combination of the quadrants outlined in the Metaverse Roadmap: "True" virtual worlds are primarily games - intimate simulations of a space, with intimate defined as meaning that users are agents "either through the use of an avatar/digital profile or through direct appearance as an actor in the system." But even games are starting to slip into augmentation - the ability to port ecomomies and group/social information into the wider world. Emerging products are building social sites that mimic the success of mySpace or Facebook - only this ...
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