I'm pretty confident that the metaverse will happen. That doesn't mean that we'll all be using "Horizon Worlds" or whatever, but rather that VR and AR will beco

I'm pretty confident that the metaverse will happen. That doesn't mean that we'll all be using "Horizon Worlds" or whatever, but rather that VR and AR will become popular by 2035. The general public is insufficiently imaginative and is over-bearish because of the negative connotations of the Meta brand, but they ignore simultaneous work by Apple and Microsoft, and the fact that the rate of progress by Meta alone has been significant. I don't have any faith in the ability of the general public (not HN readers) to resist the "fun" of the metaverse once the headsets are affordable and comfortable. We should also expect that a person's first foray into it may be through work (rather than games), as things with the form factor of a Quest Pro begin to compete with high-end workstations and are mandated by employers, mirroring the adoption of the PC.