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Why did the metaverse die? Because Silicon Valley doesn’t understand the concept of fun (www.fastcompany.com)

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People don't go to virtual spaces because they want to compulsively buy things, they want entertainment and social interaction. The more "buy this! buy that!" you shoehorn into a platform that is hardly ready for even normal gaming experiences is not going to take off imo.

Roblox is terrible but they worked out the model a little bit more intelligently. Make an engine where it's free to join, host experiences and create new ones relatively easily. They have a shop where virtual items can be bought and sold and Roblox takes a major cut of virtual currency to real currency and store transactions, but outside of that their involvement within the games themselves is less pronounced.

Even if I don't play Roblox myself, it's popular with kids and this platform I think is more capable of becoming a VR universe than Horizon worlds or other buzzed "Metaverse" implementations.

Even Garry's mod servers have more interesting interactions than Meta's pet project. And I don't trust Meta enough to touch a platform they develop.

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

After I watched a guy having to pay real dollars for clapping(!) in a vr open mic night thing I had no further questions about "the metaverse".

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's very difficult to just burst into the mainstream without carving out a niche first, and Meta's Metaverse failed because they couldn't carve out that niche.

Though even if they had tried, the very tech nerds who would be their early adopters already don't trust them because of their shady deals (did anybody say Cambridge Analytica scandel?), so they weren't ever going to fork out money for this.

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 5 points 11 months ago

The Metaverse died because they tried to monetize it before it's even a thing. Buy a virtual plot of land? With crypto and NFTs? Hell no!

VR Chat exists and it, and it's free.

[–] 1984 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's gonna come back in some shape. Imagine being able to make users live inside your little world, and you can manipulate their emotions and track them around the clock. Wet dream.

Facebook and Google are doing this already but at least without the virtual world graphics.

[–] Can_you_change_your_username@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Dear tech developers, if you are listening please put VR projects on the back burner. They are an interesting future technology but the currently possible technology that people would adopt if it were economical to do so is AR. A simple heads up display with an integrated personal assistant has enormous potential in both personal and business uses right now if it was reasonably priced and reliable. You could replace cell phones.

[–] lloram239@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago

AR has a huge battery life and size problem. The amount of video processing that thing would need to do to be useful, would result in an enormous device with an hour or two of battery life. Rendering it useless for any real world consumer application.

On top of that it has a gigantic privacy and surveillance problem.

And if that wouldn't be enough, what the heck are you going to do with it? Everything an AR headset could do, you can do today with your phone already. There is very little need to wear that functionality on your head all the time.

For some rare business use cases it can make sense, that's why Microsoft Hololens is still around, but even they struggle to finding any areas where it makes it past the "nice idea" stage and actually into a working product.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago

VR is just a marketing hype to collect VC money, that's it.

Just like crypto, AI, Cloud, Big Data, share economy, Internet of things, etc. They all get hyped like hell, burn billions of VC money, and after a few years actually useful products might appear, but are several orders of magnitude more mundane.

It's so predictable, that even Gartner found out about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A simple heads up display with an integrated personal assistant has enormous potential in both personal and business uses right now if it was reasonably priced and reliable. You could replace cell phones.

I'm honestly wondering if the new Apple thing will take off like this. It's overpriced, but this is the company that sells $700 wheels to people successfully, and the concept looks great.

You know all those programmer memes about screen arrangement? You could have them all and more with a single headset.

[–] lloram239@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

VisionPro might work as monitor and TV replacement, but I don't see it taking of as some kind of person assistant that you wear when you go outside your house. Battery life alone completely kills that usecase

[–] WagesOf@artemis.camp 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Try a movie via hmd for a half hour and you'll be looking for a monitor.

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