The "Metaverse"

Having tried Playstation VR a few years ago, I didn't have a particularly good experience. It made me feel sick and dizzy.

The whole metaverse thing seems like its too early to take off.
 
It just looks like a poorly executed solution to a question nobody but Zuck was asking. If the hardware was super advanced and put into a normal pair of glasses I would have a passing interest, sorry that’s the best I can do.
 
I have a kit supplied by my firm and I managed about 15 minutes. The problem is, unless it is ubiquitous, it isn't an option. It is bad enough getting a group of folk with a stable enough Teams connection, let alone the learning curve + latency required to join a Metaverse meeting.

And for that reason Bradley, I am out.

In fact, I have lost the headset.
 
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mrk said:
It's too little too late. They should have been working on this when VR was fresh and hot news, with a facebook user base full of the youth who would quickly adopt new snazzy tech like this. These days VR is subjected to the living room for those cool demos to show friends who come over and aside form that I don't know of anyone else actively using VR on anything meaningful other than the odd game here or there and other VR things like Google Earth VR.

These days Facebook is full of the 30+ generation and the youth dominate tiktok etc. The time has passed.
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I love my Quest 2. Literally hundreds and hundreds of hours spent on it. One of the best purchases I've ever made.
 
I do beleive in it, quiet strongly sometimes, but I feel we are a million miles off from something not only useful, but profitable.

One example I think could be amazing is education. The idea of putting kn a headset, and then being in a virtual room up close with a teacher that is giving a practical science lesson. You could walk around, get within 1mm of the chemicals, and doing all this from the comfort of your home, with 50k other sutdnets taking the same lesson. Not only that, the lesson may not be live. You could have university classes from the best of the best teachers, given to anyone in the world.

Another example would be learning to be a mechanic, or even just being one. Say there's a vehicle you've never seen before, you need to change something deep withing the front of the vehicle. You put on your vr headset, load up the manufacturers vr instructions, and now have a full 3d life like view of the car and all that's needed. You can literally put your head into the engine, see where that screw is hidden, etc. Then take off vr, now you know how to fix the problem.

I can see a great use for it, but for now, it's too expensive, and too limited.

There's plenty of YouTube how to fix videos, or examples where you might be stuck and vidoe call someone to give advice and help. Vr could replace this and do a much better job, however who buys first? You won't buy until the service is there, and you won't make these services, until users have them. There needs to be a bigger push to make people buy vr for something that can clearly exist and a clear benefit to purchasing. Games are the most obvious, and porn.

It's like the Internet in its beginning. What on earth did I as a 10 year old do in the Internet when it first came out? You couldn't buy anything, no online multilayer games,
 
Meta has a problem because this guy is the face of it. An evil, creepy, manipulative weirdo who's public image is in the toilet, thanks to things like the Social Media, the Analytical scandal, and a host of interviews where he's either sweating profusely facing questions around privacy, or again, just being an utter fruitcake. 'I was human'

Complete megalomaniacal whack job. Even his own chatbot doesn't like him, lmao.
 
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It's estimated that $1.93 billion has been spent on acquiring digital land in the metaverse over the past twelve months, as companies rush to invest in crypto-based online games. Businesses and individuals across various industries are spending as much as $1.5 million on their virtual plots, as NFTs and crypto continue to try and break into the mainstream.

However, as highlighted in a BBC report, this record investment has coincided with a metaverse property price crash. This also comes as Meta's attempts to create its own metaverse publicly backfire, with the social media giant finding little success in the field.
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Are tech billionaires OK right now?

Elon has overpaid for twitter meanwhile Zuck has spent billions on something akin to the sims:

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:D
 
GaryTheSnail said:
All these big tech companies need to shrink imo. They far too big.
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When I worked at Amazon AWS - going to Facebook was seen like the holy grail as an engineer, you go there - basically do what you like, no pressure and get paid a lot of money..
 
GaryTheSnail said:
When you worked.... so what happened?
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Did 2 years there, I just got totally burnt out, initially it's great - the sort of stuff you get to work on, but there's only so much I can take.

When I'm working till 10-11pm 5 days a week, and I'm still behind on 3x projects, and I'm getting battered into submission **** that.
 
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