The Peripheral is coming from Amazon Studios on October 21.
The Peripheral is coming from Amazon Studios on October 21.
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The Peripheral is yet another way to grok the meaning of the metaverse

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Peripheral is debuting on Amazon’s Prime Video tomorrow as yet another way to understand the implications of the metaverse.

The television series is based on The Peripheral, a novel by William Gibson, who — before Neal Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” in 1992 with Snow Crash — gave us the term “cyberspace” in his short story “Burning Chrome” (1982) and his first novel Neuromancer (1984).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.