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Elias blinked, and his apartment dissolved. He was no longer in a cramped studio; he was standing on the bridge of a starship orbiting a violet sun. Around him, three million other subscribers were logged in, each seeing the world through their own customized lens. Some saw a gritty, noir-style space opera; others saw a bright, Pixar-esque adventure. The metadata tags——pulsed in his peripheral vision, a digital watermark of the era.