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In my mind, the ambiguity of what "the metaverse" actually means allowed a bunch of people to sell it as panacea in different realms. When the smoke cleared and
by Kapura 3y ago
In my mind, the ambiguity of what "the metaverse" actually means allowed a bunch of people to sell it as panacea in different realms. When the smoke cleared and you were left with MMOs, video chat, and vr setups people don't buy or use, a lot of those castles start to fall over.
However, stuff like Fortnite or Roblox, which seemingly fulfill many of the Metaverse promises, continue to be reasonably successful. But they don't try to market themselves as "the metaverse," and while their have been brand tie ins, the product is marketed to players, not businesses.
- benatkin 3y agoThe post also fails to mention Axie Infinity. I don't think MMOs belong to the blockchain enthusiasts, but they don't belong to the blockchain naysayers either. Anyone can use them to support their argument. I think MMOs can be used as examples of what blockchain powered Metaverse tech could achieve, if they figured it out. And Axie is an example of something that already has taken off, though in a very flawed way.
- jemmyw 3y agoWhat's your definition of success here? People don't play Axie because they enjoy it, they pay people who mainly live in the Philippines to grind at it so that the account holder can cash out.
- benatkin 3y agoI used the phrase "taken off". That is the form of success I'm hinting at. I'm a bit undecided on Axie Infinity but it at least launched, a lot of projects don't.
- Kapura 3y agowhats axie infinity's mau, and what's the trajectory
- fomine3 3y agoThis is my opinion. I think something like Metaverse must become a big thing, but current "Metaverse" implementations won't. I wish Meta continue investing this area (instead of boring apps). Maybe they should buy a big game develop company.
- zmmmmm 3y ago> the ambiguity of what "the metaverse" actually means If you root cause on that you come back to, Zuckerberg made a big splash with his announcement and then followed up with .... nothing. As much as anything, these other things were filling a vacuum. Of course it got filled up with toxic garbage. The inexplicable thing to me is purely that Meta has failed to deliver anything closely resembling an experience that represents their own advertised ambitions. Case in point, Horizon Worlds still even now hasn't even launched in my country (near to one of the top 10 economies in the world). How is it even possible that something the company put at existential level of importance hasn't even launched? It's either a massive fail of execution or they never really actually had their heart in it. I do wonder if Zuckerberg's "year of efficiency", flattening of the org structure and refocusing on engineering leadership is in part borne from the reality check of basically failing to deliver on all this at a technical level.
- shepardrtc 3y agoHonestly, in my opinion, only Mark believes in the Zuckerverse. Everyone else at Meta is just trying to keep their job at this point. If you directly ask them about it, they'll hem and haw about the future of interaction changing and how business meetings will be conducted with headsets and all that. But do they really believe in it? I don't really think so.