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Think of all the things you can do in the metaverse: fitness, watch sports, watch a movie, work-from-home, virtual cafe. I think they will buy all these entry-

Think of all the things you can do in the metaverse: fitness, watch sports, watch a movie, work-from-home, virtual cafe. I think they will buy all these entry-points and stitch them together, might just work.

rad_gruchalski 5y ago
Think about it: all these things can be done in real life.
- void-pointer 5y ago
  I genuinely feel like I’m losing my mind over this shit. Just… Do people genuinely think that the average popular party girl/jock you knew in high school who loves going to parties and drinking, or playing sports/shopping with their friends is going to put on a bulky VR headset to do a cut-down, laggy, buggy, low res version of the same thing, getting VR sickness and a imprint on their face in the process? The way I see it, it any of this meta verse shit is going to succeed with the masses—I.e., not geeks who are already into VR—it will need to: * Be imperceptible or almost-imperceptible from real life in ALL senses (including things like touch, smell, proprioception etc.) * Have completely seamless and bug-free Software. a bug on facebook is annoying, a bug in the Metaverse—depending on the hardware—could cause serious injury or death. This is literally a plot point in Hypospace Outlaw, which is arguably the first game about metaverses. * Have hardware on the AR glasses side that is either fashionable enough for the masses to offset the bulkiness of a micro-computer on your face, or unnoticeable from regular, non-tech-filled glasses. Notice how the Apple Watch is not much larger than a regular one. (Indeed, there are regular watches larger than the Apple Watch—have a think about who wears them.) * Even if you have perfect AR glasses, some people aren’t going to want to wear glasses, so you’ll need AR contacts. If regular-looking AR glasses would be a miniaturisation marvel, then AR contacts?!… I feel like an old man yelling at clouds with this stuff, but I genuinely don’t see how it can become anything other than a gimmick.
  - newacc9 5y ago
    Its obvious how it could fail; no one wants a squid on their face, but its more interesting to speculate how/what it would look like if it succeeded.
  - MikusR 5y ago
    Have you actually used for example Quest 2?

rad_gruchalski 5y ago

Think about it: all these things can be done in real life.

void-pointer 5y ago
I genuinely feel like I’m losing my mind over this shit. Just… Do people genuinely think that the average popular party girl/jock you knew in high school who loves going to parties and drinking, or playing sports/shopping with their friends is going to put on a bulky VR headset to do a cut-down, laggy, buggy, low res version of the same thing, getting VR sickness and a imprint on their face in the process? The way I see it, it any of this meta verse shit is going to succeed with the masses—I.e., not geeks who are already into VR—it will need to: * Be imperceptible or almost-imperceptible from real life in ALL senses (including things like touch, smell, proprioception etc.) * Have completely seamless and bug-free Software. a bug on facebook is annoying, a bug in the Metaverse—depending on the hardware—could cause serious injury or death. This is literally a plot point in Hypospace Outlaw, which is arguably the first game about metaverses. * Have hardware on the AR glasses side that is either fashionable enough for the masses to offset the bulkiness of a micro-computer on your face, or unnoticeable from regular, non-tech-filled glasses. Notice how the Apple Watch is not much larger than a regular one. (Indeed, there are regular watches larger than the Apple Watch—have a think about who wears them.) * Even if you have perfect AR glasses, some people aren’t going to want to wear glasses, so you’ll need AR contacts. If regular-looking AR glasses would be a miniaturisation marvel, then AR contacts?!… I feel like an old man yelling at clouds with this stuff, but I genuinely don’t see how it can become anything other than a gimmick.
- newacc9 5y ago
  Its obvious how it could fail; no one wants a squid on their face, but its more interesting to speculate how/what it would look like if it succeeded.
- MikusR 5y ago
  Have you actually used for example Quest 2?