They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows, special neighborhoods where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are ignored, and free-combat zones where people can go to hunt and kill each other. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. That makes it 65,536 kilometers around, which is considerably bigger than Earth. The Street seems to be a grand boulevard going all the way around the equator of a black sphere with a radius of a bit more than ten thousand kilometers. The dimensions of the Street are fixed by a protocol, hammered out by the computer-graphics ninja overlords of the Association for Computing Machinery's Global Multimedia Protocol Group. But right now, millions of people are walking up and down it. It is the brilliantly lit boulevard that can be seen, miniaturized and backward, reflected in the lenses of his goggles. It is the Broadway, the Champs Élysées of the Metaverse. In the lingo, this imaginary place is known as the Metaverse. He's in a computer-generated universe that his computer is drawing onto his goggles and pumping into his earphones.
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