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IP: Can Snow Crash be built
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 13:54:02 -0400
As you may remember one of the stops on my trip was the Virtual Humans conference on LA. I lead a highly successful panel addressing the Question of can we build a Snow Crash environment at this time with the technology we have in hand or could refine as a result of attempting a Snow Crash Metaverse. We had four speakers addressing the various aspects of the technology. I summarized my thoughts on the use of satellites in such an enviroment. I believe the bottom line conclusions were: 1. We could build a modest size snow crash metaverse now. While we could not handle millions we could handle a significant population. 2. The uses of such a world would be, besides entertainment, education and business and that would make it "profitable" I will be putting up the viewgraphs from the panel within a week and will announce the location. ******Remember 19 June in San Fran****** Look at http://www.eff.org/fillmore
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