—— the headset looks at markers on the floor. here, i'm solving puzzles in a mindbending aztec temple in an experience called engineerium. i don't have any sensation that before is moving but my kind of things that it is. i can sample shooting stuff in the vr version of buster action franchise far cry. —— far cry. that was intense! it would be headset and headphones on, i am completely immersed in these experiences, part of the reason hearing so much about the metaverse is because technology like this now exists. richard bartle was there at the very dawn of multiplayer experiences in 1978. he was one of the brains behind the world's first multiplayer virtual world, the text adventure multi user dungeon, or mud. nowa professor of computer design at university of