The incoherent garbled nonsense of Virtual worlds are the key to its abject failure.
They fail because the form preceded the function.
If it looks pretty, they will come.
They looked pretty so why aren’t they here?
They fail because they don’t have the functionality to give them lasting appeal. The communities are formed only from strangers with contradictory visions of that the Metaverse should be.
VR was wonderful but it doesn’t add anything that a phone screen can’t do. So why have it? Its like printing books on something other than paper because its better. It might be better, but no one cares.
Can I do my shopping in virtual worlds? Yes, you can buy lots of things. Ok where do I get cat food.
Can I hold my business meeting in a virtual world? Yes, you can. Ok how to I open my PowerPoint. Oh well you can’t but look you can wave your arms around a bit.
VR has a real presence. Yes, but I can see everyone in Zoom. Yes but the latency is lower in.. Hello are you still there?
If you can’t lure more people into VR during a global pandemic when everyone had to work at home then as an idea your either way off target or totally fucked.
Facebook could piss away all its money and not make it fly.
Because company after company insist on making exactly the same mistakes as their competitors, time after time.
They have all the answers because they are coders
They never bother to ask anyone if it’s needed in the first place or actually doing something better than you could do it without it.
Open or closed isnt the problem. The problem is its functionless garbage .
Why it doesn’t Metta
The incoherent garbled nonsense of Virtual worlds are the key to its abject failure.
They fail because the form preceded the function.
If it looks pretty, they will come.
They looked pretty so why aren’t they here?
They fail because they don’t have the functionality to give them lasting appeal. The communities are formed only from strangers with contradictory visions of that the Metaverse should be.
VR was wonderful but it doesn’t add anything that a phone screen can’t do. So why have it? Its like printing books on something other than paper because its better. It might be better, but no one cares.
Can I do my shopping in virtual worlds? Yes, you can buy lots of things. Ok where do I get cat food.
Can I hold my business meeting in a virtual world? Yes, you can. Ok how to I open my PowerPoint. Oh well you can’t but look you can wave your arms around a bit.
VR has a real presence. Yes, but I can see everyone in Zoom. Yes but the latency is lower in.. Hello are you still there?
If you can’t lure more people into VR during a global pandemic when everyone had to work at home then as an idea your either way off target or totally fucked.
Facebook could piss away all its money and not make it fly.
Because company after company insist on making exactly the same mistakes as their competitors, time after time.
They have all the answers because they are coders
They never bother to ask anyone if it’s needed in the first place or actually doing something better than you could do it without it.
Open or closed isnt the problem. The problem is its functionless garbage .
You're way smarter than I am, so yes, you are right