Carmina Delacruz
Feb 9, 2023
A dystopian cyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash is most known for introducing the metaverse. The novel, along with William Gibson’s Neuromancer, which envisions a virtual reality dataspace called the matrix, was published in 1992 and is regarded as a canon of the genre.
A dystopian cyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash is most known for introducing the metaverse. The novel, along with William Gibson’s Neuromancer, which envisions a virtual reality dataspace called the matrix, was published in 1992 and is regarded as a canon of the genre.
In Snow Crash, the metaverse is a 3D virtual reality realm that can be accessed by personal terminals and virtual reality goggles akin to the Oculus Quest and other VR headsets. Users see this 3D area as an urban environment developed along a single hundred-meter-wide street known as the Street.