So they think people will put on a headset in order to shop.
Versus me picking up my phone and ordering something within a minute. Or texting someone a simple message.
What VR and metaverse miss is that they haven’t solved the asynchronous problem.
Versus me picking up my phone and ordering something within a minute. Or texting someone a simple message.
What VR and metaverse miss is that they haven’t solved the asynchronous problem.
I would not rule out radical change of use patterns.
People will not put on a headset to shop, they will shop as they play, as they watch videos, etc.
Micro-blogging is what Twitter-like platforms are typically called: a picture, a move, a small paragraph, do that 4 or 5 times a day, you have something that looks like a blog yes.
So yes, right now I would not see me putting on a VR gear just to inflige myself the pain that is Amazon, but if you tell me that in 10 years 20% of the online shopping is actually done in-game in a VR environment, I would not be too quick to say it is impossible.
Why do my parents still avoid buying stuff online? People have preferences. Mine, and it sounds like yours, is buying quickly from my phone. But I still go to retail stores most of the time if I want to buy clothes, shoes, hats. Anything physical. I'm not saying VR would replace that need but being able to try something digitally on rather than just see a photo online would be at least one use case.