https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/apple-ceo-tim-cook-next-internet-revolution-this-1-thing-metaverse.html #tech #metaverse
Is online gaming the future instead of the internet?
That's essentially the question. The "metaverse" is just a video game reimagined for more use cases. I don't think that model encompasses the future of tech.
Itās essentially the question in the sense that you can replace internet with metaverse and AR with online gaming. One is a subset of the other. Please do keep thinking itās a gaming fad tho I rely on it because Iām only an average engineer.
Augmented reality is a subset of virtual reality. if we make everything virtual except your hands is that AR of VR? if we make every moving object and the sky virtual is that AR or VR? Theyāre the same.
How about Actual Reality? Get out of the house for a bit and get some fresh air instead of being glued to a billion pixels ...
š¤¦āāļø metaverse incompases AR. More over, thereās no āpureā VR anymore. Look at Quest Pro or even Quest 2 - passthrough makes it a mixed reality headset rather than just VR. I donāt even work in Metaās reality labs, but you guys should really read up on the metaverse stuff before commenting. Meta isnāt building the metaverse or intending to own it. It wants to be a big player, for sure, but they understand the limitations.
Maybe the company formerly known as facebook should just explain that they're investing heavily in next gen user interfaces... like literally every tech company is. That would clear up the confusion. Or Zuck can try to rebrand the whole damned concept of next gen UIs by naming his company after his preferred term for the next gen ecosystem. In that case, obviously, people will mistake the overall concept for his Horizon World BS. And eventually, the term "metaverse" will drift from its Snowcrash origins towards its sad depressing new meaning (It already has, mostly, which is why your comment is a bit off base. The question was making a distinction between AR and the metaverse. That question only makes sense if we use the newer meaning of the term, so everybody with common sense will use the word in the newer way.)
Thereās no newer meaning to the term. If you think thereās, than Iāll pass it to Zuck tomorrow and congratulate him on the success of his mission. The loudest voice isnāt the right one. So if anything, letās not diverge from what the metaverse really is
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Unless the AR/VR device is easy and intuit to use, it will stay with techies.
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Just as the internet is a mishmash of different platforms and apps, the next generation of 3D and neural interfaces will be diverse. The idea of a "metaverse" that one company controls is just a magalomaniac's wet dream.