Oh yeah, it was always going to fail, but making Zuck the face of it feels like what they’d do if they were scared it had the slightest chance of succeeding and wanted to be absolutely sure it didn’t.
Zuck is a cunt don’t get me wrong. But you give him the ability to build the full meta experience in a light weight form factor, and he’d be the richest man on the planet.
Say what you want about biting off more than what is possible, but meta verse IS visionary in many ways.
No it isn’t. We already have online meetings. They’re on zoom, FaceTime, slack, etc. Making everyone design a mii and have them stand around in a bad video game while you all conduct the meeting using the clunkier versions of zoom, slack, and FaceTime integrated into the bad video game is strictly worse than using the dedicated tools that exist already. The same thing applies to shopping, socializing, and everything else that would supposedly be made easier on the metaverse.
The internet was a genuinely revolutionary technology that made many new forms of commerce possible. The people who scarfed up all that market share now need to do it again to stay on top, and convinced themselves, for awhile, that tacking on 3rd life to what they did 20 years ago would let them sell it a second time. What they don’t understand is that the removal of digital commerce from ‘real life’ is a feature not a limitation. The ability to shop without pantomiming social interaction was aan enormous convenience. By gating that behind a clunky MMO they created the worst of both worlds; Replace the hassle of driving with setting up a vr rig and fighting with Facebook to make your account work, without even the possibility of touching grass. The idea never had legs to begin with.
Oh yeah, it was always going to fail, but making Zuck the face of it feels like what they’d do if they were scared it had the slightest chance of succeeding and wanted to be absolutely sure it didn’t.
Zuck is a cunt don’t get me wrong. But you give him the ability to build the full meta experience in a light weight form factor, and he’d be the richest man on the planet.
Say what you want about biting off more than what is possible, but meta verse IS visionary in many ways.
No it isn’t. We already have online meetings. They’re on zoom, FaceTime, slack, etc. Making everyone design a mii and have them stand around in a bad video game while you all conduct the meeting using the clunkier versions of zoom, slack, and FaceTime integrated into the bad video game is strictly worse than using the dedicated tools that exist already. The same thing applies to shopping, socializing, and everything else that would supposedly be made easier on the metaverse.
The internet was a genuinely revolutionary technology that made many new forms of commerce possible. The people who scarfed up all that market share now need to do it again to stay on top, and convinced themselves, for awhile, that tacking on 3rd life to what they did 20 years ago would let them sell it a second time. What they don’t understand is that the removal of digital commerce from ‘real life’ is a feature not a limitation. The ability to shop without pantomiming social interaction was aan enormous convenience. By gating that behind a clunky MMO they created the worst of both worlds; Replace the hassle of driving with setting up a vr rig and fighting with Facebook to make your account work, without even the possibility of touching grass. The idea never had legs to begin with.
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