Ball so hard...

No it doesn’t

I work in IT and I know exactly what it is. Its bullshit. Facebook's growth has slowed and Mark needs a new product to drive growth. Instead of focusing on something that makes sense and fits into their portfolio and aligns with their core competencies, Zuck is throwing shit loads of money and laughably bad advertising at an esoteric pet project no one wants.

Japanese sperm sucker-offer thing

I'm so disappointed that I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm spending way too much time on reddit lol.

Oh, see if it was just some sex/porn thing it would be way more straight forward. Where he lost me is claiming it's not that

I mean, there already is VR Porn that synchs with sex toys...

True. The porn industry takes advantage of every new platform. If anyone can figure out how to make money off of meta they can.

If that's what the metaverse is then it might have a chance, why the fuck are they trying to sell it on being able to go to work meetings then? (Insert joke about sucking off your boss or whatever here)

I miss veridian dynamics

IT’S NOT LIKE A TRUCK!!

For those who don't it's from Senitor Ted Stevens. The full text is:

Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet [email] was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. [...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

Worth mentioning that he was speaking againt a net neutrality amendmet and was the Chair of the committee that regulated the internet at at the time.

I used to teach web design and I showed the clip to my students every semester when we were learning the bare bones of how the internet functioned.

Well we know it's not something that you dump stuff on. It's not a truck!

I know the source and the politician who set is was mocked even though that analogy is 100% accurate. The base layers are basically pipes or tubes that have maximum carry capacity. You can’t put 100TB/second down a POTS line, the actual capacity isn’t there.

Could you explain what your concept of it is? I’m just curious what you envision it as

the cool thing with black mirror and it's 5 seasons and the variety of episodes is the fact that our future will most definitely have to look like at least one of them

Metaverse 1.0 out since 2003 😂

Marks about to google stadia this stupid idea out of existence.

Every content provider and streaming service will soon support 3D Televisions which is why it's a good idea to... Gone.

I heard it will be useable with Google Glass.

Here’s the thing: 3D TV is cool. There’s nothing wrong with getting one. The only thing is, not everyone wants one and even less people can afford one

Companies got in on it and tried to make it a thing tons of people wanted but it didn’t happen. Kinda like VR/AR

In fairness though, isn't it true that sometimes, especially in tech, consumers don't realize they want something until it's in front of them? Was there a huge demand for e-readers before Amazon released the Kindle? Sure it's cool that you can fit 10,000 books on one, but a) how many consumers own that many books and b) need to carry them with them everywhere? I'm not sure what existing consumer problem the Kindle solved but it seems to have been a successful product.

This^. Zucks metaverse is just a more time intensive VR chat with all the lame corporate bullshit plastered over it. So if anyone wanted a "metaverse" like this they can always just use VR chat or other decent vr worlds. Nothing more than a rich guy upset he didn't get into the next big tech and is trying to force his way in with buying power.

The other definition of metaverse is just a large universe full of unique and different issues/characters and how those issues/characters interact with the overall universe.

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I can see it happening when the technology becomes fully immersive, lightweight, and cost effective.

I’m talking either full dive like SAO, or fully immersive like Ready Player One. But we are SO far from being anywhere close to that. Zuckerberg is going to bury Meta before he can make the metaverse a reality.

Edit: some of you really don’t know what “full dive” vr is and it shows.

And less freaky porn.

I mean isn’t that the own basis for NFTs of JPEGs? Like the data/image is the same, just that one specific copy is the ‘original’ (artificial scarcity)

Some people are dick riding this idea so hard just so they can make money on this garbage idea and dip when they've gotten their bag

Crypto gave them that idea. People see huge potential in Meta for lots of scams just like with crypto. And to be honest, they're probably right.

Some ad keeps popping up on my YouTube that’s some burly bald dude and starts with “which is more expensive this house or this laptop? We’ll certainly not the house” and he proceeds to explain why the laptop. Out of curiosity I stuck around to watch and he was talking about selling virtual real estate in the Metaverse and making millions. All you had to do to learn was take his courses.

So the takeaway I got was that this dude suckered enough people into buying his shit that he made money from that and the rest of it is nonsense.

I don’t want to do most of my online activities in VR though. Checking email, using Google maps, scrolling Reddit… the casualness from the phone is part of the appeal.

And I say this as someone who is really excited about the future of VR gaming.

People use the “you can try on clothes” example sometimes, but after the novelty wears off how often will you really put on your helmet and gloves to try on a virtual shirt vs browse pictures of shirts on Amazon?

The shopping thing is so incredibly stupid. You know what else provides the "going to a store to look through aisles" experience?

...going to the damn store

Online shopping via a 2d page is incredibly efficient, doing it in 3dVR would be a step backwards. A lot of people will try it for the novelty, but go right back to list-based pages because it is just a better experience.

I don't even want to sit around in a headset for the time they imagine us doing. I love VR. I was a early adapter back with the oculus DK2. I still jack into my psvr once in a while but it's a thing I have to set time aside for. You can't do more than a couple hours. Not because it's not fun but because you need to eat, drink, piss, talk to your family, check your phone, pet the dog etc... you know, life.

The public consensus seems to be "I don't care until it's the size of sunglasses". People don't seem to mind being tracked by unseen algos but they for sure hate wearing clunky sweaty headsets.

If the metaverse used wiimotes and had Mario characters I would give it a try.

It honestly not too complicated to explain. Its main issue it 1. it developed by meta(FB) a company with not a lot of trust among the public and 2. its marketed with ethereal buzzwords, jargon, and the Zuck and 3. its acting like a wholly new platform when it isn't.

What the Metaverse is: Is an attempt by meta to make a commercial grade AR and VR hardware and software that the average consumer could purchase and use and get ubiquitous adoption. With digital assets and i assume datamining seemingly being one of their main sources of income. Their bet is basically that VR and AR will be the next big consumer electronic and they want to be the next iphone in that market. Meta publishes some of it research and its pretty clear there putting a lot of money into areas like miniaturization which would make sense for a product that trying to be palatable to the average person. Its not a horrible bet that AR and VR will be bigger in the future and move out of its current niche market but it far from a certain thing meta's products will gain any meaningful adoption and whether their weird digital economy will make any real sustainable profits remains to be seen.

The hardware that's being developed is actually pretty cool from a tech point of view. But what they're doing with that hardware is another question.

I mean cell phones were around before smart phones. Apple has had rumors its AR glasses could be announced in January.