Beware the Nam-Shub of Enki.
Snow Crash needs a movie
There’s an HBO show in development now. I’m looking forward to it!
What is the metaverse?
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#12I 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…
Maybe you don't like your VR but I actually know more and more people who use their headsets and looking at the stores and forums and so on it seems like it's gaining real traction.
Less so for AR but Pokemon Go still has users an I see ARish features integrated by default into my default Samsung camera, and ARish stuff into meeting software, streamers etc. It's not super advanced yet but hardly dead and I wouldn't be convinced something big won't come out of it.
>My take: the Metaverse is the new chatbot.
I'm not a fan of most chatbots but they've been very successful, improving and you see more of them. An apt comparison even if made for the wrong reasons.
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#13If 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 ca…
3D movies are sadly still super popular. I couldn't find a single high quality streaming of Dune that wasn't 3D in the capital I live in.. It does seem like most people don't have problems wearing the glasses.
Re: What is the metaverse?
#14If 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 ca…
3D movies are sadly still super popular. I couldn't find a single high quality streaming of Dune that wasn't 3D in the capital I live in.. It does seem like most people don't have problems wearing the glasses.
> 3D movies are sadly still super popular.
Wrong incentives at play. It's not that people want it, they force 3D movies on you and charge you for the glasses. Easy money.
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#15There’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…
Funny, because our internet has become a miserable place where corporations run everything.
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3D movies are sadly still super popular. I couldn't find a single high quality streaming of Dune that wasn't 3D in the capital I live in.. It does seem like most people don't have problems wearing the glasses.
> 3D movies are sadly still super popular. Wrong incentives at play. It's not that people want it, they force 3D movies on you and charge you for the glasses. Easy money.
I've seen many 3D movies in theaters, and they never charged extra for the glasses. Where are they doing this? It would only make sense if there was an option to bring your own, but that's not the case.
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#19Beware the Nam-Shub of Enki.
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#20Is this journalist trying to be "first" on this or something? Did they coin the term?
I'm pretty up to date on what trends and fads are happening in tech: this is the first I've heard of the term "metaverse".
> It's attracting attention - and money - from some of of tech's biggest names, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Epic Games' Tim Sweeney.
Sounds like by "some" the mean "two". Or are Zuck & Sweeney just backing VR and as clueless about this new metaterminology as I am?
This reminds me of the attempt 2 years ago to rebrand AR&VR collectively as the even more confusing "XR".
It's just VR. Call it VR. And it's not a new trend, VR undergoing a resurgence for some time now.