If you’ve been watching the development of videogame technology and user interfaces, you might have noticed that we’re getting closer and closer to the point where the Matrix becomes a reality. At some point in the future, most of us will be socializing, working, and having fun in a vast virtual landscape — also known as the 3D Web, the metaverse, or the hypergrid.
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Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov is editor and publisher of Hypergrid Business. She has been a journalist for more than twenty years and has worked for the Chicago Tribune, Reuters, and Computerworld and has reported from over a dozen countries, including Russia and China.
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