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Feels like we’ve left the station and our climbing to the first hill: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

I imagine we’ll get a lot of V1s, especially once Apple releases their AR gear, but we’re about 15 years out from the plateau which will likely resemble the smartphone market. My guess.

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We are currently in the "information superhighway" era of the metaverse. Everyone wants to have a proprietary metaverse that looks pretty much like IoT visualization or an open world mmo. What we need is a "browser" and common protocols. The biggest impediment to the metaverse at the moment is the size of 3D assets. A "website" in the metaverse looks very much like a game, but games are really big. There are solutions to these problems, but there's a lot of engineering work to do between here and there.

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