With Apple joining in on the space, Valve being there for ages, and Microsoft's being reborn from the dead [1]... one wonders what's this whole thing against VR/AR applications.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871859/us-army-microsof...
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871859/us-army-microsof...
Ideas like the metaverse tap into a lot of established sci-fi, pop-culture concepts which are generally very cool. I genuinely think that people really do want VR worlds to succeed - they do want their own virtual homes, customisable avatars, places to meet and game online in the metaverse, etc.
But instead they got some awkward, low-poly bobbleheads with a side helping of unnecessary crypto crap...
Quest3 is GOOD though and I feel people are sleeping on it. It feels like a properly mature product. It’s the rest of the market that looks a little questionable to me.
Not to sound too much like a VC Bro but I also feel the more VR/AR goggles they can push the more appealing the platform will become for developers and as a social platform. They’re just not shipping quite enough units. It doesn’t feel like meta is doing anything wrong, it’s just going to take time to build up enough users to attract developers and more users to attract more users and developers.