I think this mostly a hedge-fund/VC driven insanity, similar to insane amount of money placed on ML. Somebody sold the idea of Metaverse to someone really rich

I think this mostly a hedge-fund/VC driven insanity, similar to insane amount of money placed on ML. Somebody sold the idea of Metaverse to someone really rich and now they are going to pour all the money to this stuff. There is no consumer demand for Metaverse and there won’t be any demand for quite a while until they craft comfortable AR/VR eyeglasses that don’t weight a ton. That being said I’m sure all those billions spend will produce valuable stuff like GPT-3 of today but is it really cost effective way of advancing the tech?