The metaverse is bullshit
I think the only BS is the way we.all talk about this stuff, same way the cloud is all hyped up.<p>AR and VR are great tech, when it gets good enough that it&#x27;s a simple comfortable accessory to wear, and it incurs no strain on your eyes, it&#x27;ll definitely find many uses.<p>And for sure we&#x27;ll pursue the tech for better full body tracking, walking in-place, simulated touch, and all that, and if all that one day works similarly well, you can bet lots of people will start using it all too.<p>So now imagine you have this tech all figured out, what would the software look like? Obviously you&#x27;re talking 3D UX, logically you&#x27;ll start building virtual worlds to inhabit, eventually you&#x27;d want some things to if possible transfer from one app to another, and where all apps are virtual 3D spaces that might mean some of that stuff needs to transfer over.<p>It can even be simple things, if I can now whiteboard virtually, and use my own hand writing on the board, and now I&#x27;m in another app, and I&#x27;d like to pull up that whiteboard I did? This is equivalent to say Slack letting you send photos or files over.<p>I don&#x27;t think any of this is far-fetched, it is just a matter of getting the tech to a point where it is easy, comfortable, convenient and all around pleasant to use.<p>Now calling it all a Metaverse, that&#x27;s in the same league as calling a bunch of remote servers the Cloud.<p>And yes, the article is right, we all have this stuff already, but we have it in 2D, using 2D interfaces like flat monitors, stereo sound, physical keyboards and mouse. Now you&#x27;re talking what if we had a surround 3D monitor? Surround 3D sound? Full body tracking with milimeter precision? You&#x27;d just take all we currently have and upgrade it to be full surround 3D as well. That&#x27;s all it is.