IP: Can Snow Crash be built

[David Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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.




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