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As a technologist, the tech of VR is neat but as a human I haven't found the use case of the social Metaverse compelling and I don't see how better fidelity or
by mrandish 4y ago
As a technologist, the tech of VR is neat but as a human I haven't found the use case of the social Metaverse compelling and I don't see how better fidelity or tech will make it fundamentally different enough to suddenly become "must have" to the mass market.
VR is great for some kinds of immersive gaming and I can see media consumption as compelling when the resolution, optics and FOV get there but I'm no longer confident there's some magic use case waiting to be discovered that makes the social Metaverse "the future" Zuck thinks it can be (even if it's not Meta who finds it). As for telepresence, the 'Zoom-like' format works well enough and I don't feel any need for increased immersion.
I admit I could be wrong, and the technologist in me kind of hopes I am, but I now think there's a real possibility it just never goes big.