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I don’t think the future of the metaverse will have anything to do with 3D actually. The 3D/VR stuff is more of a fad than a long term plan.

The real vision behind the metaverse is thinking that many of the things we currently do in person (i.e., concerts, going to bars, school, work, etc.) will eventually move online. Meta wants to position themselves as the “platform” for this.

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And this expectation is incredibly far fetched. It is betting on the reversal of many, many years of human habit which has become habit for a reason.

I have no faith that Facebook knows what it’s doing, but I need to point out that COVID is going to absolute cripple the population if we don’t all learn to get virtual for anything truly optional real quick. And if it does cripple the population, a lot of stuff will have to be virtual to be attended at all.

Most of Europe and the America's are winding down lockdown measures. mRNA vaccines are highly effective. if you try to book a plane or concert ticket you'll see that people are racing to get out of their homes after 2+ years.

My entire family got Covid last week because we let our guard down and went on vacation on an airplane. all vaccinated, but still put us out for over a week and counting. it may not kill us, but I definitely don’t want to get Covid again if I can do something to decrease my risk, like choosing zoom over in person.

i dont think it's even habits - the technology of VR is just not mature enough, and convenient enough. I don't see it becoming better by an order of magnitude, which is what's needed for it to be competitive with real life attendance, any time soon.

By this moment, i think the Steam Deck has a better position to build the 3D metaverse.

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