Hollywood film worlds preceded Silicon Valley as popular metaverses

Evidence

But maybe Silicon Valley isn’t the place to look for the birth of the metaverse; back down the 101, in Hollywood, the metaverse has been a popular, beloved experience for decades. Its vision, one populated not by 3D avatars, but by well-known characters and intellectual property, is one many people actually want to live in. Perhaps our technological future lies in a cinematic world already imagined in the past. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 399

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the user’s reading purpose: the branded cultural world as a financial instrument, connecting to franchise/transmedia discussions.