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My metaverse is work. Every morning I get up go to my office and spend 8 hours jumping from zoom call to zoom call from my gcal.
Radical dude, you’re surfing the M E T A V E R S E. …sorry.
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Radical dude, you’re surfing the M E T A V E R S E. …sorry.
Lol. I wasn’t implying it was cool or revolutionary. Just pointing out that all day every day I’m meeting with people who I’ll probably never meet in real life to complete tasks work.
I started a new job March 2020. I've yet to step foot into an office, or even get a badge for crying out loud...almost two years later.
That's my life.
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Depending on your needs, the technology is already there. I already do most of my work in VR with my partner, while he is also in VR from his house about 2 miles away. We need a few desktop screens up for information, a big whiteboard, and the ability to see each others screens. With Immersed and Horizon Workrooms we get all of that already. Before workrooms was really stable we were using Immersed and keeping Mural…
Which Headset? I’d love to do this but most VR owners say the DPI is still not there for small text and it’s too cumbersome to keep wearing for hours.
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Weird example. That Gryphon ride is slower than taking the tram, or at least it used to be. The advantage of the Gryphon ride is that it was automatic.
I remember those arguments and races - and it all fell aside when people just hearthstones you Dalaran which was faster than both.
I would also hazard a guess that the future of screens is not more immersive screens but fewer screens at all. Voice control is a more important innovation than VR goggles.
Spot on. I don’t get how anyone who saw future dystopian sci fi in the 80s doesn’t understand that it’s all the result of increased privatisation. I would also hazard a guess that the future of screens is not more immersive screens but fewer screens at all. Voice control is a more important innovation than VR goggles.
In what sense has there been increased privatization since the 1980s? Note that I'm not contradicting you, I'm just asking how you are measuring this.
Note that Government spending has gone up. Since the 1980s, we've massively subsidized and increased regulation over healthcare (ACA, medicare expansion), housing (Federal Agencies have come to dominate lending market), education (massive infusions of loan guarantees and aids, micro-management of universities with Title 9), and employment (significant increase in licensing requirements as well as employment regulation).
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Will you recognize that it doesn't actually have to be a point to it, though? As long as you can spellbind investors there doesn't actually need to be something useful that's build at the end of the day. "Crypto" is a good example of this. A lot of the products and services that were build using Blockchain could just have used a normal RDBMS.
Sure, no doubt. But the arguments fielded on HN as to why these various technologies are dead ends and will implode once people become rational are weak. They're usually from people who literally have never used the technology (or, used it many years ago.) At best, they have, don't get it (which is fine) but then go on to make the leap that since they didn't get anything out of it, the whole thing is a house of cards…
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Successful with a huge asterisk, considering Fortnite was completely dead until they tacked on the Battlegrounds clone.
I don’t understand why would that be an asterisk. Anyway they have the multiplayer game with the biggest reach (Fortnite) and they develop the premier game engine Unreal. I don’t see why they wouldn’t be in a good position to make a play in this space.
I know a company that has a very popular game (Minecraft) and they develop the premier game API DirectX. They also have a pretty popular game console, AR glasses, a well known operating system, etc. I don’t see why they wouldn’t be in a good position to make a play in this space.
Text 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…
Books as art take on the order of 10-100 hours, that is 1-2 orders of magnitude longer than the movies. This is why longer series are so popular, see: the Mandalorian It’s possible that as digital tools make it easier to make hundreds of hours of high quality content the ‘metaverse’ experience will become on par with the books.