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The advent of ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' and its open-source equivalent, ''Open Simulator'', may make this future arrive sooner than you think. Some might argue that it already has, what with real-world governments and businesses setting up shop in ''Second Life'', people making real-world money entirely within ''Second Life'', and successful experiments at teleporting avatars between the ''Second Life'' grid and various ''Open Simulator'' grids. However, with the drastic decrease in the use of these services, [[TechnologyMarchesOn the concept fell by the wayside for years]]... until projects like UsefulNotes/OculusRift and [[https://janusvr.com Janus VR]] started [[CyclicalTrope bringing it back]]. In 2021 Mark Zuckerberg renamed the parent company of Website/{{Facebook}} and Instagram to Meta and officially announced his intention to create this trope, titled ''Horizon Worlds''. Of course, whether this will ever be more practical than today's Internet is up for debate.

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The advent of ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' and its open-source equivalent, ''Open Simulator'', may make this future arrive sooner than you think. Some might argue that it already has, what with real-world governments and businesses setting up shop in ''Second Life'', people making real-world money entirely within ''Second Life'', and successful experiments at teleporting avatars between the ''Second Life'' grid and various ''Open Simulator'' grids. However, with the drastic decrease in the use of these services, [[TechnologyMarchesOn the concept fell by the wayside for years]]... until projects like UsefulNotes/OculusRift Platform/OculusRift and [[https://janusvr.com Janus VR]] started [[CyclicalTrope bringing it back]]. In 2021 Mark Zuckerberg renamed the parent company of Website/{{Facebook}} and Instagram to Meta and officially announced his intention to create this trope, titled ''Horizon Worlds''. Of course, whether this will ever be more practical than today's Internet is up for debate.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Active Worlds is one of the earliest RealLife examples and was outright inspired by ''Literature/SnowCrash''.
* Croquet
* [=OpenSimulator=]
* VideoGame/SecondLife
* High Fidelity
* [=VRChat=]
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[[folder:Real %%[[folder:Real Life]]
* Active Worlds %%* ''Active Worlds'' is one of the earliest RealLife examples and was outright inspired by ''Literature/SnowCrash''.
* Croquet
* [=OpenSimulator=]
* VideoGame/SecondLife
* High Fidelity
* [=VRChat=]
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%%* ''Croquet''
%%* ''[=OpenSimulator=]''
%%* ''VideoGame/SecondLife''
%%* ''High Fidelity''
%%* ''[=VRChat=]''
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