What is the metaverse?
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What is the metaverse?
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#2It will be interesting to see where Gartner place the Metaverse on their Hype Cycle and track it going forward but there is no doubt it is already in the Amara's Law phase where we are overestimating the short term and underestimating the long term.
Yet, even overhyped as it may currently be, the actual short term impacts will still be significant. Real Time Edge Rendered Cloud Pixel Streaming, Digital Twins, AI/ML/ Computer Vision, and social platform avatars etc are the escape velocity needed to extend XR beyond the gaming community into ordinary personal and business interactions. In so many cases, just adding an interactive layer of 3D imaginative space can make the things we do better.
People who are in the space have experienced several false dawn episodes but the intersection of hardware capabilities and software use cases has never been so virtuous as they are now so strap in & hang on to your hats folks !
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#3Hasn't this been done already? Where's Bruce Willis when you need him?
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#4Beware the Nam-Shub of Enki.
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#5I struggle with the constant stream of fad terminology, the latest being Metaverse and Web 3.0.
In some ways, Metaverse appears to be simply a new way of describing what we already have —- aren’t social networks themselves already metaverses? In others, the likes of FB and Apple are pushing technologies to enhance “Metaverse immersion” (made that up), none of which is gaining significant traction.
VR and AR headsets continue to improve, and yet still fail to extend beyond the realm of tech demos for most people. (I understand AR has decent uses in industry: hardly a metaverse.) This criticism is coming from someone who was an enthusiastic early adopter with Oculus, and who currently owns a Quest 2, which is excellent at gathering dust, and at occasionally wowing VR noobs (who are amazed but never end up buying one).
Then you have iOS AR, another technology devoid of practical and compelling uses. I love the Measure app with the LiDAR sensor —- is that a metaverse, an electronic tape measure? I guess so.
My take: the Metaverse is the new chatbot.
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#6There’s a hype phase like this every ten years or so since the 70s or earlier that VR is going to revolutionize the world. It’s not going to happen this time either.
What’s really sad about this time, though, is that the Metaverse name comes from a dystopian sci-fi novel in which people retreat to a VR world because the real world is such a miserable place where corporations and organized crime runs the world.
Instead of embracing that, maybe we should be striving to avoid that state of affairs.
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#7Beware the Nam-Shub of Enki.
Snow Crash needs a movie
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#9If you have to wear physical goggles or glasses, it's not going to happen apart from some very niche areas.
Anyone remember 3D films and TV? Apparently the real killer for that was that people didn't like sitting wearing glasses, and those who have to wear glasses all the time anyway couldn't take part.
So can we expect 4 year old kids to patiently wear an expensive VR headset to chat to granny? I doubt it. People can't even be bothered to turn their webcam on for meetings - they're certainly not going to bother putting on a VR headset and grabbing controllers for a 30 minute status update meeting.
That said, I am intrigued by using a VR headset for a virtual display (rather than monitors). In my limited experience of using VR stuff from 2 or 3 years ago the per-eye resolution sucks though and there is no pupil tracking so I can't imagine it being a great experience, but perhaps that is solved now?
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#10There’s a hype phase like this every ten years or so since the 70s or earlier that VR is going to revolutionize the world. It’s not going to happen this time either. What’s really sad about this time, though, is that the Metaverse name comes from a dystopian sci-fi novel in which people retreat to a VR world because the real world is such a miserable place where corporations and organized crime runs the world. Instea…
You’d have to implode startups then since deflating others buying power and wages is what props up VCs that fund them
You should probably also avoid Ycombinator which is basically seeding reality with pointless corpo brands, many with their own brand bucks for you to spend
All in cahoots with government
Like an organized crime syndicate
And we all go online to distract from and support it
There’s no getting around a police state; the goal of a state will always be to insure people accept what’s politically correct.
If it’s politically correct there are billionaires that always win, political policy will enable it.