I’ve been reading accounts of the NYC VW show and there are some interesting takes on the deluge of new worlds hitting the net.  Corey Ondrejka’s account is here: http://ondrejka.blogspot.com/2008/04/its-small-world-after-all.html
with a comment and link to this comic below by Tateru Nino which is really funny – “Whore of Brandercraft” lol.   Prokofy concludes that “There is no Metaverse“.  There’s more interesting quotes at  http://www.mixedrealities.com/?p=118

and the one that resonates is Corey Ondrejka’s insight that:  “The future is not a phalanx of walled garden, advertainment worlds constrained by short-term thinking“.

If that’s what is in the works by all these companies though…”Brandercrafts” then isn’t that the future happening? Well it is – and this is explained in the Metaverse Manifesto  as there will indeed be thousands and indeed unlimited worlds with varying characteristics.  Together they form the Metaverse but walled they are and walled they will stay – this is the nature of the Metaverse structure – the realities can rarely co-exist.  Fascinating discussion to carry on later!