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Line 1: {{trope}} What is ~~the~~[[The Metaverse]]? The short answer: "It's the Internet, except you can walk around in it." Line 11: This is a subtrope of [[Cyberspace]] where it's widely known and used as a replacement for today's Internet by the public at large, not just by a few lucky hackers, discoverers, or inventors' friends. {{examples}}▼ ▲{{examples}} == Anime and Manga == * ''[[Ghost in ~~The~~the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' - See the episode where Major Kusanagi visits a chat room, for example. * ''[[Mnemosyne]]'' has "2.0". We see it grow in importance over the course of the series. * ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' Line 31: * The Sidebar Universes in Justina Robson's ''Living Next Door to the God of Love'' are a lot like this. Robson makes it difficult to tell where (or if) reality ends and virtual reality begins. * The Infosphere in Dan Simmon's ''Hyperion''. {{spoiler\|Also the Megasphere, the true home of the AI Core, and the Metasphere, aka the Void Which Binds.}} * Inscape in several of Karl Schroeder's book, especially ''Ventus'', ''Lady of Mazes'', and ''Permanence''. * Used in a few of Charles Stross's books, particularly ''Accelerando''. * ''This Alien Shore'', by C.S. Friedman. * Used on a massive scale in the ''Golden Age'' trilogy by John C. Wright. Line 42: == Tabletop Games == * In [[White Wolf]]'s ''[[~~Mage: The Ascension (Tabletop Game)\|~~Mage: The Ascension]]'' game, there's the Digital Web, and one faction is working on Reality 2.0 to boot. * ''Shadowrun'''s Matrix. Not related to the movie. * The ''[[~~D 20~~D20 Modern ~~(Tabletop Game)~~\|D 20 Modern]]'' book ''d20 Cyberscape'' addresses this. == Video Games == * ''[[~~Megaman~~Mega Man Battle Network]]'' - The Internet has evolved into just this, except the avatars are independent, sentient entities instead of just virtual images of the users. Also, it's been extended into everything from water coolers to vases. In ''Star Force'', the internet has grown out into a massive wireless world that ''overlaps'' the real one. * And yet manages to be both far, ''far'' less impressive or useful than the internet from something like a hundred years before. * [[The Nameless Mod]]: a meta example. The game (mod) is set in forum city-a fictional [[Metaverse]] based on [[~~Deus Ex (Video Game)\|~~Deus Ex]] where player avatars are based on [[~~Deus Ex (Video Game)\|~~Deus Ex]] characters. Line 65: * Active Worlds * Croquet * [[~~Open Simulator~~OpenSimulator]] * [[Second Life]] * For some years, [[Steve Jackson Games]] ran a MUD/MUSH named "The Metaverse" (after ''Snow Crash'') on its original net presence, io.com. {{reflist}} Line 73 ⟶ 74: [[Category:Cyberpunk Tropes]] [[Category:The Internet]] ~~[[Category~~{{DEFAULTSORT:~~The~~ Metaverse]], The}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]