Has anyone ever done any studies on the effects of long, daily exposure of the eyes to a vr headset’s optics and screen to the human eye?
The metaverse is bullshit
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Re: The metaverse is bullshit
#222From a superficial look, I hope that Meta fails and that it does it badly.
We're already living in a walled garden whenever we use the web, I'd hate that reality became like that as well. It already is with restaurant chains and Amazon killing local venues' diversity. Meta would make it even worse.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
What on earth does the NFT part add here? WoW can add unique, auctionable items at any time using their existing tech. It's already a centralised platform, so decentrilisation doesn't add much...
A number of NFT promoters have made the argument that other video games could support the WoW NFT and then that content would be portable across those games!!! Okay, but none do, and none will, and any other video game that did code in a substantially similar functionality would simply sell the same content in their own game, there's no benefit to the company to spend the time and money to make the content and not ge…
>A number of NFT promoters have made the argument that other video games could support the WoW NFT and then that content would be portable across those games!!!
As the article points out this is a dumb idea that doesn't make any sense. You could port an ownership token from one game to the next, but the receiving game has to implement some semantics for that item that are completely divorced from the originating game anyway.
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#224This thread feels like 1860's consilium on what future will look like 500 years later. The shape of the metaverse will be formed by a new generation, not by older guys (and not by fortnite addicts who play by the rules of the former) who know nothing better than drive a fancy “car” on the “road”, as if roads or a concept of physical movement or the euclidean rule would still be there for common use and not for museum…
Without the "concept of physical movement" how will "food" get to your "house"?
Are we "talking" about 2040 or 2140?
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#225Text is mightier than the Metaverse. Kids can do video calls with their smartphones but prefer texting. We could discuss Hacker News stories with video chat but we prefer text. News and politics junkies prefer reading text tweets on Twitter to watching talking news anchors. Once upon a time Amazon was a company that only sold books. Dried ink on dead trees. And in the early internet age this book seller outperformed…
> Kids can do video calls with their smartphones but prefer texting.
Kids massively play and pay for games, games are the core of the appstores. They also listen to music and watch crazy hours of youtube.
Text won't die, but it's not the prime interface. Even texting is more and more sending gifs and stickers around.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
> why the heck am I driving a car around? I can fly, can't I? By this logic nobody should play Gran Turismo because a Superman game exists. > You can't test legroom or the seat cushions, because your avatar doesn't don't have a body. So I don't see how you can realistically sell an actual real-world car, because isn't most of its function and design unnecessary in the metaverse? By this logic it's pointless to make a…
The metaverse goes against consumer trends in web browsing. People want to consume their information on the go while doing other things, this is why mobile presently dominates the web. Who wants to context switch from reality into a virtual world just so they can see what the new Ford pickup looks like? Nobody, thats who. This whole concept reads to make like a Facebook exec went into a coma just as Second Life was t…
I thought of a remark a day or two ago, but I have no idea, other than your remark, whether it applies at all:
"Does Zuck have Second Life second-system syndrome?"
Re: The metaverse is bullshit
#227Text is mightier than the Metaverse. Kids can do video calls with their smartphones but prefer texting. We could discuss Hacker News stories with video chat but we prefer text. News and politics junkies prefer reading text tweets on Twitter to watching talking news anchors. Once upon a time Amazon was a company that only sold books. Dried ink on dead trees. And in the early internet age this book seller outperformed…
> Billions and billions spent on making movies as polished as possible, yet "I thought the book was better" is what we always hear. How many people watched game of thrones? How many people read all of the published books in a song of ice and fire? The book might be better but movies and TV are a lot more popular.
I could not find much data but it seems that the finale of Games of thrones had 19 million viewers [1], while the books sold 90 million copies [2]. Since I guess the latter are cumulative over all the five books, it looks like books and series have a similar performance.
Looking at something similar, the Lord of the Rings had around 80-90 million viewers (very rough estimation from the global box office [3]) while the book sold 150 million copies [4], so the books seem to have fared better.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_of_Thrones_episod...
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#cite_no...
[3] - https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120737/?ref_=bo_tt_ta...
[4] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-arts-tolkien-novel-idUSL1...
Re: The metaverse is bullshit
#228> In a September 2021 Washington Post interview, Tim Sweeney imagined the future of advertising. "A carmaker who wants to make a presence in the metaverse isn't going to run ads," he said. "They're going to drop their car into the world in real time and you'll be able to drive it around. And they're going to work with lots of content creators with different experiences to ensure their car is playable here and there,…
> why the heck am I driving a car around? I can fly, can't I? Flying? I hope I can teleport as easily as I can jump to a web page by clicking a bookmark or typing its URL. Second Life had teleport. I walked, drove a car, went flying only for the fun of it or for very short distance movements.
Any game that implements a form of fast travel finds 95% or players use it all the time or most of the time. Sure you could run to Stormwind - but even the tram was completely dead one griffon flight points were usable.
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "You can make a low end VR headset out of a $100 smartphone and a $5 plastic box" Have you ever tried that? Smart phones as VR are extremely disorientating and the latency of the gyro makes it unusable. I've got an Oculus Quest and it's amazing how well it works using the 4 camera vision-system instead of a gyro. What they were demonstrating in the meta-verse was facial-tracking attached to VR headsets, which is su…
Not instead of a gyro, Quest still uses gyro and accelerometer compensated with camera SLAM.
True, yes I meant instead of purely gyro orientation.
Re: The metaverse is bullshit
#230It's not the Holodeck.
And won't be for long long time. Which I believe is one of the key points to understand. Ofc, we have nice fiction with fully immersive VR. But in general we are far away from it. And on other hand tools we have to interact in VR are quite lacking compared to usual ones. Not to say there isn't some specific very nice use cases. But in general VR-controls are likely always be a compromise or purpose build one.
For example for most work at least in office, keyboard is pretty damm useful thing. And I don't think there is any good solution to replace it.