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Mark is for sure doing a bad and out of touch job presenting The Metaverse to normal people. He's right about his bet though. The infrastructure he's building i
by stuntkite 4y ago
Mark is for sure doing a bad and out of touch job presenting The Metaverse to normal people. He's right about his bet though. The infrastructure he's building is going to pay off. I think a lot of the popular criticism at Horizons has to do with people seeing it as a video game. Which it isn't. But you have to build off what is familiar to people and that's going to be 3D video games.
I'm no Zuck booster either. I wish John Carmack never would have gone to work for them, I wish they weren't doing this, and I think Zuck is gross. But the growth in this space is happening fast and next year is going to be very interesting. The momentum in the 3D recursive and reprojected computing space has just had some major leaps. I'm going to do everything I can to focus on open tools, but there's no doubt that Meta will continue to do pretty well as it expands.
- PaulHoule 4y agoOn one hand I find AR and VR to be personally interested, particularly in configurations that are "inside out" and bring simulated graphics into the real world, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X11CTE7CmnI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X11CTE7CmnI and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6W4YRZYvew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6W4YRZYvew (I am thinking about how to make a low-cost version of that last one) I think though it's not an appealing technology for Facebook and other legacy media companies for one simple reason. You can spend all day watching TV, browsing the web, playing conventional video games, listening to music, reading, etc. I see VR as a venue for intense entertainment experiences but I don't see it moving the needle for hours of engagement relative to other media. I like the Simula VR concept but you've got to be a weirdo like me to want to be working in a coffee shop looking like Iron Man.