The metaverse is a dystopian nightmare – let’s build a better reality
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#2Virtuaverse seems to be describing something similar: https://www.gog.com/game/virtuaverse
Permanent reality idea could be closer than it looks.
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#3Did Pokemon Go make any major progress in AR interactivity in the 5 years since it's release or is Niantic blowing smoke?
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#4VRChat is working pretty well. The interface is a little clunky, but, it's pretty much what I think when I think metaverse. Not sure what Niantic is on about.
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#5Did Pokemon Go make any major progress in AR interactivity in the 5 years since it's release or is Niantic blowing smoke?
They bought out a couple companies who made major leaps, 6D.ai for example.
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#6Title doesn't really reflect the content of the article. Niantic is describing how they're going to build their own Metaverse in AR.
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#7The title and content of the article, in which Hanke espouses the virtues if Niantic Labs (an AR company), were cognitively dissonant for me.
> The concept reached one of its most complete expressions in Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, where virtually everyone has abandoned reality for an elaborate VR massively multiplayer video game. A lot of people these days seem very interested in bringing this near-future vision of a virtual world to life, including some of the biggest names in technology and gaming. But in fact these novels served as warnings about a dystopian future of technology gone wrong. As a society, we can hope that the world doesn’t devolve into the kind of place that drives sci-fi heroes to escape into a virtual one
I'm trying to understand what Hanke is really saying. Is he saying that VR sucks, and AR, specifically AR that encourages people to interact with the real physical world, is where its at? I assume by "biggest names in technology and gaming" he is referring to Niantic's competitors? Specifically what about those bets does he disagree with?
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#8Did Pokemon Go make any major progress in AR interactivity in the 5 years since it's release or is Niantic blowing smoke?
Depending on how you define AR, they've added a number of features to Pokémon GO over the years (ability to place Pokémon into the world and view them with your phone's camera, real-time in-game weather based on your location, and realistic sky graphics with everything from sunsets to accurate star constellations).
But the common complaint I hear from players is that they don't really care about those developments since the AR additions haven't really altered the basic game play loop.
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#9^
Re: The metaverse is a dystopian nightmare – let’s build a better reality
#10The title and content of the article, in which Hanke espouses the virtues if Niantic Labs (an AR company), were cognitively dissonant for me. > The concept reached one of its most complete expressions in Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, where virtually everyone has abandoned reality for an elaborate VR massively multiplayer video game. A lot of people these days seem very interested in bringing this near-future visio…
I think you got it. I'm pretty sure he's saying: VR bad, AR good. VR = escape from reality, AR = richer engagement with reality.