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I’ve been mulling over ideas like this for a while. What if the metaverse is actually primarily audio, without all this 3D, VR headset bullshit? Earbuds are inc

• capableweb 4y ago
  > Earbuds are incredibly widely deployed [...] it doesn’t feel like they’ve been treated as a platform in a serious way. That's because the earbuds are not a platform in themselves, you can't run stuff on just the earbuds. They are connected to something, which is the platform, and outputs audio from what the platform tells them to. So unless we come up with earbuds that have built-in computers, they'll remain an accessory to platforms and won't become platforms themselves.
  • thom 4y ago
    I phrased that badly, I really just mean audio as the platform, but I wanted to highlight that people have headphones and earbuds, are happy to wear them for long periods of time either at work or outside, and in a lot of cases have home devices with audio interfaces. When people try to push a vision of the metaverse as some embodied experience across multiple services and devices, with more ambient interactions with people and data, I genuinely think you'd get more mileage dreaming up new audio services to fulfil this rather than janky 3D stuff requiring a headset nobody wants to wear. I don't think it takes an audio only device such as the one linked to be able to envision audio-first interfaces that are better than the current generation of very limited and disjointed assistants.