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Want to know what’ll be happening in the metaverse in a decade’s time? A group of metaversal thinkers (myself included) will get together in California next month to start hacking out their vision of what might come to pass. The Metaverse Roadmap is a project of the Acceleration Studies Foundation that will seek to come up with “a 10-year scenario, possibility, and challenge document for the development of the 3D Web” and related 3pointD technologies (including massively multiplayer online games, virtual worlds like Second Life, social software and Web 2.0 apps, among other things). [Press release.] It promises to be a heady event, with participants including Corey Bridges of Multiverse, Esther Dyson, Randy Farmer of Yahoo! and John Hanke of Google Earth, among others. The public is invited to participate as well, through an open wiki and mailing list, though I’m not sure whether these have been implemented yet. I’ll be blogging the event, and (with any luck) Johnny Ming of SecondCast will be podcasting things at some point. If nothing else, the resulting document will be fascinating look at some of the more blue-sky ideas that are knocking around the 3pointD world at this point. And plans are to update the roadmap on a recurring basis in order to keep pace with whatever does come to pass. Hopefully, it will be a document that will foster new ideas, new directions and new developments in all aspects of 3pointD.