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| last edited by BillSeitz on Nov 10, 2008 7:36 am |
Is Google Earth a Virtual World? Will they allow a 2nd copy with fictional spaces? Google Earth general manager [John Hanke] has said that Google Earth was partly inspired by Snow Crash's Meta Verse. At a recent Silicon Valley conference, he described it as a "3-D virtual world." The result could be that we'll soon populate a virtual version of planet Earth instead of the made-from-scratch metaverses like online games or Second Life. The main element Google Earth is missing today is [AvaTar]-s, but at least one observer believes those to be added soon.
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