#Second life game movie

FacebookвЂ™s marketing bumph says it will вЂњfeel like a hybrid of todayвЂ™s online social experiences expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical worldвЂќ. Neither is it easy for the rest of us to pin down exactly what the metaverse is, beyond the hyperbolic announcements and the leapfrogging by other tech firms and digital brands. Zuckerberg and Nick Clegg making a video call as it made its public debut вЂ“ portrayed as avatars who, inexplicably, have no legs вЂ“ does not seem a great leap forward in graphic design. But itвЂ™s striking that for all the billions being thrown at the вЂњmetaverseвЂќ concept вЂ“ an idea so beguiling Facebook has changed its name to Meta to prepare for its arrival вЂ“ the new online world that has generated so much fanfare still looks a fair bit like HollywoodвЂ™s approximation of an immersive computer network from 30 years ago.

#Second life game movie

Mark Zuckerberg was probably too young to have appreciated the shonky graphics of the вЂњvirtual realityвЂќ world the movie portrayed, and which have made it a hipsterish cult artefact. It was, supposedly, ahead of its time, but the idea of being manipulated by an inscrutable, bespectacled Pierce Brosnan turned out to be nobodyвЂ™s vision of utopia and it was soon filling bargain bins in Woolworths.

F or those of us of a certain vintage, the concept of a virtual reality world will always conjure up memories of The Lawnmower Man, an almost criminally inept 1992 film about a gardener whose mind is controlled by a scientist determined to use technology to enhance human intelligence.