metaverse

英语

词源

meta- +‎ (uni)verse。科幻义项由作家Neal Stephenson在1992造出。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈmɛtəvɜː(ɹ)s/

• （英国南部）音频：

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名词

metaverse (複數 metaverses)

1. (科幻，網路) 元宇宙
   • 1997年7月7日, Zina Moukheiber, “The geeks have inherited the earth”, 出自 Forbes, →ISSN，第 354–356 頁s:

     It is closer, in other words, to another science fiction vision, the “metaverse” Neal Stephenson envisioned in his 1992 Snow Crash. That particular moniker has not caught on, but many of Stephenson's ideas about what the on-line world can look like are driving a new generation of entrepreneurs to try to match it.

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   • 2020年5月15日, Keith Stuart, “Fortnite Party Royale is the most fun you can have in the metaverse”, 出自 The Guardian‎^[1]:

     But now, with 350 million players who are used to hanging out in a vibrant, ridiculous online world filled with dancing bananas and cartoon skirmishes, Party Royale could be the experience that finally realises the idea of a playful, mass participation online metaverse.

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   • 2021年7月10日, John Herrman, Kellen Browning, “Are We in the Metaverse Yet?”, 出自 The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Video games like Roblox and Fortnite and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, in which players can build their own worlds, have metaverse tendencies, as does most social media. If you own a non-fungible token or even just some crypto, you’re part of the metaversal experience. Virtual and augmented reality are, at a minimum, metaverse adjacent.

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   • 2021年7月30日, Brian Merchant, “The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea”, 出自 VICE‎^[3]:

     In the world of Snow Crash, the metaverse is not viewed as particularly cool—it is necessary, because the real world has become so unbearable.

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2. 多元宇宙

   近義詞：multiverse

   • 2003, Ervin Laszlo, The Connectivity Hypothesis, page 108:

     A single-cycle universe comes to eternal rest. But further instabilities in the virtual energy domain may occur, and some of these may be potent enough to create new universes. The thesis of a metaverse giving rise to local universes is cogent, […]

衍生词汇

• metaversal

参见

• cyberspace

延伸阅读

• metaverse在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 ^en
• multiverse在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 ^en