Metaverse Manifesto (Paperback)

~ Orange Montagne (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 76 pages
• Publisher: Studio SFO (April 17, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0615144438
• ISBN-13: 978-0615144436
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #124,504 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Metaverses are manifest, July 15, 2007

By	Darb Dabney (Marin County, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

The metaverse Manifesto (caps intended) is a pithy pamphlet.
This book introduces many social issues that emerge as natural consequences of people willingly immersing themselves into what was science fiction before 1988--a dynamic shared 3D graphic context that visibly includes both the viewer and others viewing at that moment. It's a big topic, and the book hits many points squarely.

Orange Montagne channels a time-tested tone and cadence from Engels & Co. (1848) to present wry analogies: those who would immerse themselves in virtual worlds as proletariat, and those who consciously create new reality as vanguard of that class. Audacious? Perhaps. As structure for quickly reaching key observations of a huge new topic, it seems to work.

I've read this book twice now, on both sides of the Atlantic in the past three weeks. I'd suggest that if you are barely curious about virtual worlds, haven't read _Snow_Crash_ since the early 1990's, and never been inside the likes of World of Warcraft or Second Life, then this book may be too intense to make deep sense; (hence four stars rather than five.)

If you have so much as logged into Second Life and changed the size of your ears, understand the point of "The customizable Avatar itself is a more accurate representation of the being than the human form.", and have a sense of humor in English language, you might enjoy this book quite a lot.

Should you own land in Second Life and have executed a build, this is a little red book of comradeship written just for you.

-=Darb Dabney

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliance Manifested!, July 17, 2009

By	Cathleen M. Walker "geminiwalker" (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

I loved this book - as a huge fan of Second Life this book tells the story of the phenomenon and the people who have discovered this brave new world and the journey it takes us all on when we are open to it.