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> I have no idea how they would know that the Metaverse is a terrible idea. Metaverses are a great idea. We've had metaverses for decades. A metaverse is just
by kibwen 4y ago
> I have no idea how they would know that the Metaverse is a terrible idea.
Metaverses are a great idea. We've had metaverses for decades. A metaverse is just a virtual location where pseudonymous users can interact in a persistent space. Even HN is a metaverse.
What we don't need is an all-encompassing VR metaverse. And no, I'm not saying that VR is useless. VR will find its place. It's in Zuck's own interest to try to conflate "VR" and "metaverse" together into "capital-M Metaverse", in a vain attempt to frame himself as the visionary Tim Berners-Lee of the century while simultaneously capturing all the value of VR gaming via Facebook's walled gardens. Don't fall for it.
- amadeuspagel 4y agoInteresting definition, but I think most people talking about virtual reality or the metaverse mean something like a 3D space that people move around in with avatars, and that seems to be what meta is working on, and what most people, including me, are skeptical of.
- kibwen 4y ago> something like a 3D space that people move around in with avatars Once again, we have those metaverses: MMOs. Anyone suggesting that every MMO of the future must be first-person, merely to reap the benefits of being in VR, will first need to explain why fewer than 100% of the video games of the past 20 years have been first-person. VR just isn't a fit for enormous categories of experiences.