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> but what is so appealing about a "metaverse" vs a phone or video call? This question had many forms in the past, with people questioning phone calls, then em
by ActorNightly 4y ago
> but what is so appealing about a "metaverse" vs a phone or video call?
This question had many forms in the past, with people questioning phone calls, then emails, then text messages, and so on.
Meta, done right of course, has real potential to actually be good. For example, schooling can easily be done through Meta, which has the potential of monetary savings across the board, and with several advantages over in person schooling.
- desindol 4y agoCitation needed for the schooling part.
- jakupovic 4y agoIt's obviously a conjecture, not citation needed.
- desindol 4y agoI bet there are studies being done in Australia or other rural parts of the world… have a look at „school of the air“ rather fascinating topic.
- ActorNightly 4y agoKids being left at home to "go to school" in VR has obvious economic benefit. You don't have to spend time in the morning to make sure the kid is ready for school, if your kid is gifted you don't need special transportation to the magnet school for gifted kids, you can have remote monitoring instead of parent teacher conferences, way easier to deal with bullying, e.t.c. For teachers as well, they can teach from home, which means they don't have to be colocated in the same area as the school, and so on.
- desindol 4y agoYou would leave your kids alone at home with only virtual oversight?
- spookthesunset 4y agoAs the father of a 5 year old, correct me if I’m wrong but don’t kids need to interact with other kids in meatspace? What is with this dystopian vision people keep pushing that has everything virtual? Why would anybody want to live in that?
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- otabdeveloper4 4y agoCovid conclusively proved that online schools are for poor people who want to be stuck in perpetual poverty. Rich people will obviously pay for in-person schooling and reap the future job prospect rewards.
- parrellel 4y agoCovid showed throwing a bunch of teachers with no appropriate training or properly structured curriculum at the problem will fail utterly. There are plenty of functional remote schools.
- eropple 4y agoCan you share an example of one that you would consider better than in-person schooling, rather than merely functional?
- parrellel 4y agoConnections Academy's been doing fine by my kids so far, the one that's old enough for it has been getting decent mid-90ths on the state assessments. It's running a Pearson based curriculum that allows for a decent amount of flexibility and one-on-one teacher interaction. No blockers for working ahead, decent comprehension checks. Lots of opportunities to go off into the weeds. The big drawback is it does need a parent to help teach it at the younger years, so I get to do most of my coding at night during the school year, but I haven't had any complaints so far.
- timellis-smith 4y agoIn its current form though I wonder if communication via be will be a step backwards, as I'm not aware yet of any way of capturing facial expressions, like a video chat would.
- crashingintoyou 4y ago> I'm not aware yet of any way of capturing facial expressions, like a video chat would. I haven't personally used it but https://www.vive.com/us/accessory/facial-tracker/ https://www.vive.com/us/accessory/facial-tracker/ is already available. Leaks also suggest that support for facial and eye tracking will likely be integrated in Meta's pro headset as well.
- ActorNightly 4y agoPretty sure that would be a straightfoward ML task based on a tiny camera in the headset.