nishio “Is this a metaverse?” or “This is not a metaverse!” then “what is the definition of metaverse?” are assumed questions. If you claim that “only what satisfies the characteristics of a metaverse that you are familiar with is a metaverse,” you are in the same category as anti-metaverseism, which says “only the world that is familiar to you is the world.
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- For a deaf person, the game world, where only written communication was possible, was “a world without disability” --- As the environment changes, the definition of competence changes.
The definition of a metaverse is ambiguous, and to consider only those with familiar characteristics as a metaverse is to narrow one’s perspective. For a deaf person, a game in which only written communication is possible is a “world without obstacles.
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