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I suppose the engineering staff isn't using a metaverse app because it adds nothing to their work process. Why walk around in some virtual space when you can sh
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
I suppose the engineering staff isn't using a metaverse app because it adds nothing to their work process. Why walk around in some virtual space when you can share docs and text instantly to anybody in the company?
Much of technical work isn't face-to-face negotiation. Managers like that; engineers don't have much use for it.
- smsm42 4y ago> Why walk around in some virtual space when you can... This is the key question not only for engineers, and I don't think anybody has a good answer for it except for "we want to make more money and existing markets are already taken".
- Yaina 4y agoEngineers are also in meetings. I guess the reality is that nobody – no matter if PMs, designers, engineers or anyone – wants to sit in a weird virtual environment, if instead they could just quickly join a zoom meeting. Who wants to put on a headset and stare at a dead-eyed avatar if you could just turn on your webcam. And that's just the work part of it, I would assume that Horizon Worlds has even less recreational value.
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoOr even meet and not turn on your webcam, which is the norm in all engineer meetings I attend.
- quantified 4y agoMaybe if work was actually meta-fied, there'd be some reason to try it. Like the only way a bug report could be filed or a ticket closed was through some VR metaphor. I have a feeling they need the creativity of the engineers to figure out why they'd bother dogfooding it.