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VR/AR people… is there a term for the virtual material out of which virtual environments can be said to be built? Like with atoms I’d say “wall of concrete” … I’d say”wall of X”? If not we should make up a term. I propose renderium or rendrial or rendril…
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You do want to be alive to the distinction between reality and illusion without being slave to it. Like in kayfabe. Hmm kayfabium? Mayum? Plus obviously we’re not going to be limited to skeuomorphium.
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but then from inside you'd just say 'wall of concrete' to refer to the thing that has the concrete texture and is supposed to _be_ concrete. having another word that refers to an abstraction layer is already outside of the matrix?
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I really hate the whole namespace under “meta” I think of meta an an “on top of” prefix in practice (though the og etymology is after/beyond). On-top is the weakest/blindest perspective possible on anything tbf. Especially materiality.
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'metawall' or 'metaobject'... metawall I like the sound of. Metaobject less so. v-prefix? eg "vWall" "vObject" like e-mail "wall of ___" gramattically doesn't make sense I think, since "mail of e" also doesn't make sense but we have "electronic mail"
Gonna go with renderium and embodium as base class terms for my paraverse story. Paraverse: what emerged in 2050 in fertile liminal embodium-renderium rubble of failed metaverse, which retreated to a few islands of law-and-order by 2045 after failing to subsume everything
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