To me the metaverse in general is approaching bullshit for the same reasons 3D TVs largely failed: Not everyone's going to want to use it. It doesn't create new

To me the metaverse in general is approaching bullshit for the same reasons 3D TVs largely failed: Not everyone's going to want to use it. It doesn't create new novel things you couldn't do before, it just makes existing things much less convenient. It doesn't solve a real problem. Why on earth would I want to have a meeting as my 3D avatar? Meetings are broken in a lot of ways but having to strap on a headset is not the solution to any of those issues. And no matter how cool you make doing eCommerce in the meta verse, a majority of people are going to want to do it via a web browser. Why? A web browser requires a fraction of my attention, I can keep it open on the side, I can quickly switch tabs. Webpages are very information dense. Commerce in the meta verse has most of the disadvantages of shopping in a brick and mortar store with only a few of the advantages and very few unique advantages. The metaverse creates more immersive experiences but except in games it does it for things no one wants to be more immersive. I'm betting no one has ever asked: I wish I could have a more immersive at home shopping experience. They already had a perfect high definition immersive experience in retail stores and chose the Internet instead of it. The only legitimate problem it seems to solve is a bunch of nerds (not using as a negative, I myself am a nerd!) read Snow crash, Ready Player 1, Nueromancer... heck, even Tom Clancy's Net Force... and thought: this sounds cool. What they miss is that in a majority of those books, the metaverse is a way for corporations to create a world in which they have all the control and human live in squaller and no longer interact with each other in the real world. For the most part they were distopias not utopias. Edit: Seem to have a fun little up down voting war going on that is keeping me around +1 which means about half of you agree and half disagree... maybe if you disagree you can try saying why in a reply instead of downvoting? I would legitimate love to hear your reasons why I'm wrong. I'm open minded.