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I will really look forward to the book. It annoys me more than a little that metaverse today is spoken of as being all cool and new when what I have seen of new metaverse is not on a part with Second Life and Opensimulator in many ways. Even the graphics aren't as good which is really shocking so many years later! New metaverse seems to have never known of lessons learned in SL and others. A world or world of smart interconnet IIoT virtual objects and personal avatars that is open for whatever you want to make of it. Some are very interesting but almost none have that all important feeling of being "there". Almost none are as fully in-world malleable. Somehow because there is a box on one's head or because maybe it is somehow running on blockchain (though we all know you can't do much of what is required for VW there) or somehow is Web3 whatever that may turn out to be it is all shiny and better and the latest thing. I must be getting old and grouchy that what has gone before seems reinvented rather not as well.

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