This could be Tim’s last European tour as Apple CEO as I expect him to gracefully bow down after the release of the first augmented reality headset and Apple Glasses.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'I'm Not Really Sure the Average Person Can Tell You What the Metaverse Is'
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Yeah uh...I got some news for you man...though I don't think I can go into detail due to the forum guidelines.
Soon, you too can be a Metaverse/Appleverse zombie. You’ll just need a headset and a big bank account.
You’ll eventually find yourself with IAP just to breathe the fake hot air they’re blowing at you.
You’ll eventually find yourself with IAP just to breathe the fake hot air they’re blowing at you.
I'm not a fan of any of this stuff, I'll be happily living without it, but, come on, poopooing the metaverse when there is nada in the public what you are planning to offer Apple? come on. besides rumors of a headset, how it's being used or envisioned is to guess work ...
'Is the web going to be a life-changing event for millions of people? No.'
Steve Jobs, 1996 interview with Wired.
Surely it can't be worse than paraphrasing a movie line?Yeah uh...I got some news for you man...though I don't think I can go into detail due to the forum guidelines.
"Nobody can me told what the Metaverse is, they have too see it for themself." - Morphius probably.
This is awesome. You win my internet today.
No. It's Meta Horizon Worlds.
Yeah...we know. There's a reason VR users ignore Horizon Worlds and just stick with VRChat.
Same here, 44 years old, not once ever interested in AR/VR. I'm also not on any social media networks and never have, so I guess I'm an outlier.
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I recommend looking at the twitter account @PessimistsArc.
It has countless newspaper examples of middle aged or elderly folk rallying against technologies going back almost 200 years. This is a never-ending cycle of luddism and countless examples where every technology we hold dear today was rallied against.
VR is the future of our penitentiary system both for the incarcerated and those that imprison themselves.
Even assuming continued miniaturization and falling prices, a VR headset is still going to be a big, weird kinda bulky thing you have to wear on your face, and which only one person can use at a time (and which you need to remember to plug in to charge after you're done). People are not going to ditch simple big screens for that. VR will always remain a niche product suitable for certain games and 3D visualizations, but the simplicity of a 2D screen you can instant look at and look away from with your ordinary unaugmented eyeballs will continue to reign supreme for the vast majority of information consumption, communication, and entertainment.
like everything it has the good and the bad and the ugly side. Ican think plenty of amazing benefits that come from AR integration and while I do believe is going to be a super high profit, loss of privacy, and many other things I believe is still worth it to push forward and that the pros outweighs the cons.
Would be akin to curved sunglasses in its final form, so it wouldn't be bulky at that point, but only one person would be using it so that will make it hard to replace TVs outright across the globe.
It doesn't have to replace all TVs though. It will still escape its niche because you don't need to be as popular as a smartphone to be mainstream.
Same age and feel the same. You aren’t old, you’re just getting wiser. Think you’ve said it all with your post.