I've read that a lot of people here are super bullish on the Metaverse and various “digital words”
As a VR consumer and developer I however am very skeptical that the masses will flock to an digital world.
The metaverse is not a new concept, its been around since the 90s if not further back. There is already a form of metaverse called “Second life” where you can own properties, join communities and pretty much “live” in a real world.
Now I know a lot of people will say that we simply don't know the possibilities yet and we are thinking too simple minded but let's be creative. What could be some use cases that people would prefer doing digital vs real life?
Metaverse cinema? Yeah that already exists in current VR games and it's really not that fun and you obviously can't recreate the pixel density nor the actual sound acoustic that a lot of people don't get from their home system.
Meetings? Yeah I guess if you prefer to strap a VR headset on you and be forced to see your digital coworkers instead of having a 2D Teams screen where you can actually do something else than stare at your coworkers during the meeting.
Dating? I almost don't want to go into this. Are you telling me a digital date would surpass the actual real life vision of a human, the smells, the toucing hand?
Virtual jog by the beach? I literally saw this example on the sub. You think people would really want to jog in a virtual beach oppose to actually going outside?
Whatever the metaverse is it will be a subpar experience to the real thing. Unless we can advance graphic rendering by a hella of a lot or actually tapping into our senses I fail to see how the metaverse would “awe” anyone.
If we do go fully Inception, “simulation” reality then we got bigger issues than the Metaverse.
With that said I still think it could be future revenue in this field but it won't be as massive as some people here think.
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