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> I'm hoping with the PSVR2 launch that people will finally realize that the metaverse consists of way more than just meta and Horizon.

agreed. it's unfortunate that FB decided to just coin "Metaverse" since it's all encompassing. to your later point, it's as if Yahoo decided to launch a product called "Internet" and have it be an awful piece of software turning off everyone from the concept of the internet and pushing it back another decade simply due to terrible branding

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They didn't coin "metaverse" it comes from Snowcrash and was later evangelized by Mathew Ball.

True, but outside of HN-bubbles, where do you think most people first heard the term?

sure, to us nerds that's obvious. but not to my fiance, or to my mom. metaverse = FB

my parents definitely don't think metaverse = FB

if they don't associate metaverse with FB, then they most certainly don't associate metaverse with snowcrash nor matthew ball

Yes, this what drives me crazy. I don’t understand how so many smart and educated people fell for meta’s ad and marketing campaign. I guess the campaign was just so amazing for that many people to be mislead. Someone should rename their company into Internet and maybe enough people will believe that this new company is the sole owner and developer of the Internet

Haha, the 3d TV industry deserves some marketing hate too, and Google for their godawful crap cardboard platform.

I'll bet that once someone puts out a super polished platform with a handful of killer apps, it'll take off anyway. Right now even if you gave away preconfigured VR headsets to everyone for free they wouldn't use them

I strongly feel that meta already did create that super polished platform with Beat Saber as the first killer app. Not enough people are even willing to give it a try due to a combination of FB’s broken brand and the intimidating giant box that you have to put on your face. Hopefully, the new smaller form factors will help with the last problem

Or, you know, we played guitar hero and there's no need to relive the past with a screen 3 inches from your eyeballs?

You haven't tried modern VR yet have you? Google Cardboard doesn't count.

No, of course not. Just like I haven't tried bungee jumping.

Then why comment as if you know anything about it? I can see normal people doing that, but this is HN

Here's the part I responded to:

> Not enough people are even willing to give it a try due to a combination of FB’s broken brand and the intimidating giant box that you have to put on your face

I'm not willing to give it a try because it doesn't interest me, it has nothing to do with FB or being 'intimidated' buy a box. I just don't want to play things in VR, especially games that I've already played and the only new feature is '3 inches from face'

Yeah, fair enough, there's a tiny, tiny sliver of humanity that has no interest in fun

You should quit repeating "3 inches from face" though since it's misleading and pointless. There's this thing called a "lens" which can make something appear farther away than it really is, and they use this bold technology to make stuff in VR appear far enough away that it actually tricks your brain into thinking it's really there in 3D space

It's not so much "falling for it" as it is jumping on the bandwagon.

The hype is real, and mirthless smart people are just looking to cash in on Meta's billion dollar branding moves.

> It's not so much "falling for it" as it is jumping on the bandwagon.

I don't see much of a difference between the two. I can understand the non-techie masses doing this, but not what seems like the majority of HN users.

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