In Europe it's used a lot by small businesses etc. it's pretty bad if it's not reliable.
The metaverse better be real good, else Meta will be in serious decline.
The metaverse better be real good, else Meta will be in serious decline.
They’ve invented legs, I’m not sure what else you’d need.
Imagine a headset with a 360 degree camera, so you can broadcast your surroundings, and someone else can wear their VR headset and be seeing what your camera is seeing. Or use some transformation/extra gear so they can view the world/your avatar from a few feet next to you.
This technology needs drastic minimization to become seriously popular.
And I feel like people are high on fumes and refuse to see that there’s nothing there, none of the actual problems are solved, and there are no real use case being addressed. Someone just went “this is the next hype” and… is it?
Most next hypes flounder and die a lonely but well deserved death.
> his vision is that the Metaverse future is Skyrim or GTA5, I guess that'd be a Matrix-like virtual world.
Except for all the difficult bits which make matrix matrix, you know, the part where you don’t crash into a wall or destroy a display if you forget that you’re very much still in the real world outside of your helmet?
> Imagine a headset with a 360 degree camera, so you can broadcast your surroundings, and someone else can wear their VR headset and be seeing what your camera is seeing.
Yes because if there’s one thing that’s missing to my life, it’s an office supervisor being able to see my surroundings when I’m taking a shit.
Sure there's nothing there now, and I'm not cheerleading or hyping him on, but if I were in charge of this project I'd look if the tech which is portable and affordable could be developed (in a 10-15 year timeline) to prevent running into stuff. I look at your response and think "Why so much of the small-mindedness?".
I've seen people walk around tourist spots while video-calling their friends/family, the other side would be in their tatty t-shirts in their bedroom, but hey, they can enjoy a part of the caller's travels and adventures. Of course it's also currently possible to take a shit and video call your supervisor, geez, I wish you a better job than one where you have to answer supervisors' calls even while crapping...
Decentralization is not a panacea. You just have to pick your poison.
E-mail is decentralized, but every now and then a hn post pops up, complaining about how you can't run your own email server these days. Billions of people don't use email for personal communication, but use centralized apps like WhatsApp and many businesses do the same with WhatsApp, Slack and similar apps.
To me it looks like running a centralized service works really well for companies like Meta and Google and the fast majority of people pick those services over something else. I don't think many people will change their mind about this because of one outage.
I tried to convince people to move to Signal, but 1) they're not immune to outages as well, 2) the network effect is too strong, and 3) signal doesn't seem to get the QoL niceties that made WhatsApp appealing in the first place and insisting they know better. No easy chat history backup is a no-go for most people. No live location sharing is also a bummer. Plus their Android app is a second class citizen in quality and lacking tablet support.