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VRChat is similar to Metaverse and while it hasnt exploded in popularity, its growing. I could see it being a multi-trillion dollar thing. My retired dad is ob
by hospitalJail 3y ago
VRChat is similar to Metaverse and while it hasnt exploded in popularity, its growing.
I could see it being a multi-trillion dollar thing. My retired dad is obsessed, he spends hours per day in it meeting new people and his friends from around the world. He even has become more open minded to Trans people(He has been socially liberal his whole life, but that topic he was resistant on).
He tells me about parties at clubs, celebrating holiday's like St. Patrick's day, having birthday parties, even a wedding.
Soon companies will begin monetizing it more blatantly and capitalism will feed it.
Facebook failed because Facebook is creepy and we try to avoid their products.
- bagels 3y agoDid Facebook fail? It still drives a lot of profit.
- acchow 3y agoFacebook didn't fail because it's creepy. It's product just wasn't good enough to overcome its creepiness cost. (although, going by Facebook's stock price I don't think it has failed...?) TikTok is much creepier and more invasive, but people keep flocking to it.
- parl_match 3y agoFacebook released, hands down, the best video conferencing hardware and experience I have ever used. It was at an aggressive price point, and was well built hardware. The first thing people said when they heard about it was "I don't want Mark Zuckerberg watching me". That's not rational or correct, but that's the sort of problem Facebook has made for itself.
- csallen 3y agoWhat device are you talking about? The Portal?
- RyanHamilton 3y ago>>"I don't want Mark Zuckerberg watching me". That's not rational or correct I think there's a non-zero chance if it took off they would measure anonymised metrics. e.g. We noticed 1 user stand up, stop watching TV 4 times to go to the kitchen. We now have websites that record every mouse move to allow replay. We have had phone apps listening in to hear what TV programs are being played currently to gather viewing stats. If there's money to be made it's happened. The webcam gathering anonymised statistics seems likely.
- mcphage 3y ago> The first thing people said when they heard about it was "I don't want Mark Zuckerberg watching me". That's not rational or correct What's not rational about it?
- parl_match 3y agoWell, Portal had an E2EE implementation that was well tested and reviewed, excellent hardware security (including immutable indicators in the form of LEDs of camera activity). It was built exactly like you'd build something to be immune from this criticism. But since Meta was/is a privacy dumpster fire, none of that mattered.
- mcphage 3y agoSince Meta is a privacy fire, being concerned that a product of theirs either is—or will be—used to violate users privacy seems a perfectly rational concern to me.
- seydor 3y agofacebook failed is a hyperbole, as is the belief that VRchat will scale to billions. It is not the first time these things happened, Secondlife has a few million users peak.