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I'm dabbling in crypto for a few months now, and I don't quite understand the focus on XR in the "corporate idea" of the metaverse. To me, the main selling poi
by k__ 5y ago
I'm dabbling in crypto for a few months now, and I don't quite understand the focus on XR in the "corporate idea" of the metaverse.
To me, the main selling point of the metaverse seemed to be an alternative economical space based on tokens which are implemented in a decentralized matter. Everything else seems to be fluff.
- jayd16 5y agoWithout the XR (or the ever increasing richness of media), you're just talking about the internet as it exists today.
- k__ 5y agoThe internet that exists today is to a huge degree based on advertisement revenue. It think, a replacement for this alone could be a game changer.
- jayd16 5y agoWhy would we expect that to change?
- azinman2 5y agoMeta is an advertising company. Their products will not be ad free. Source: a friend working on such matters there.
- k__ 5y agoI thought we're talking about the Metaverse?
- deltree7 5y agoYour friend doesn't have access to Zuck's thinking or any other thought leaders at Meta. So, your friend just because he works there doesn't have anything special, unless he himself thinks like OP (Ben)
- azinman2 5y agoYou’re making a lot of assumptions :)
- deltree7 5y agoWe don't have the capability to transfer one's knowledge/wisdom/vision to someone else. Tim Cook can never think like Steve Jobs. Bassy can never think like Bezos. Even sons/daughters of great people inherit the kind of thinking the original GOAT did. Yeah, it's a natural phenomenon, not assumptions.
- azinman2 5y agoWhich primarily is not driven by tokens (outside of video games for psychological manipulation of money), but in fact real government issued currency.
- jayd16 5y agoIt's already primarily is driven by digital currency in the form of credit. We're not sending greenbacks through the intertubes. Perhaps cryptocurrency will force some change in international commerce, but I can't help but feel regulations will simply catch up.
- k__ 5y agoThis is obviously true now. But besides being government issued, tokens and the currency you talk about are both "make believe". I mean, people valued stamps, paintings, and tulips rather high too. I don't know how things will go, but at least these tokens seem to get quite some gobal interest lately.
- twalla 5y agoThey're both "make believe" in the sense that they're abstractions to move value around - except if you want a road or a hospital built, you use government currency, if you want to not get thrown in jail, you pay your taxes in government currency, both of those examples seem pretty not-make-believe to me.
- thom 5y agoIt lacks imagination to think we've already discovered all the different ways to create shared spaces and inhabit them with today's internet and available media. I've no doubt there will one day be an iPhone moment for VR or AR, and therefore for 3D interfaces. But I don't believe it's this decade, however much money VCs throw at it. The 3D worlds bit of the metaverse just seems incredibly tedious to me, however flashy the demos. It all detracts from what could be genuinely interesting conversations about if and how we _actually_ want to weave the internet more tightly into our lives.
- jayd16 5y agoDo you think no one is having those conversations? I think many people are talking about the things you mention, but flashy 3d renders will stay very common in new media and blogs.
- thom 5y agoI don’t think nobody’s doing that, no, but I think this stuff isn’t core to the current VC investment thesis around the metaverse.