A Brief History of the Metaverse: Game On! And on and on and on…

In episode five, co-hosts Tony Parisi and Mark Pesce explore the first decade of the Millennium, when the Metaverse blossomed into the foundation for a new generation of video games such as ‘Ultima Online’, and big data ‘digital twins’ like Google Earth. It’s “Game On!” for Tony and Mark – and on and on and on and on…

Have a play with Mark’s ‘WebEarth‘ – a real-time 3D model of the world, up and running 25 years after he created it…

Or take a tour of the Web-based version of Google Earth – created, in part, by Avi Bar-Zeev.

Read the paper Ken Birdwell wrote about the creation of Valve’s Half-Life

Here’s T_Vision – ART+COM’s Earth visualisation that so inspired Mark in 1995: