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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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Metaverse looks like some crap graphics like Minecraft, when will it be like Ready Player One?
I posted a video that shows Ready Player One level graphics.
When will it reach consumers? Probably by the end of the decade, somewhere around there.
Facebook needs to stop making Zuck the face of their metaverse efforts or it will creep people out who might otherwise be curious about it.
I've owned two quest VR headsets and they are very impressive. I'm not into the second life thing, but the games and some of the learning tools are outstanding. My kids can journey to the great pyramids or see the moai of Easter Island in great detail from the living room. It's more than Apple has put forward.
Right after these interviews, Tim goes and swims in his money like Scrooge McDuck.
Right after these interviews, Tim goes and swims in his money like Scrooge McDuck.
Everything I have seen so far looks like badly rendered Sims ca Windows ME. Not interested at all until I can really pretend to be in Hawaii
You will live in the pod, you will eat the bugs, you will own nothing and you will like it.
A virtual (fake) reality is only appealing to losers who have nothing going on in life. The incel/Discord/loser market isn’t big and substantive enough to float a scam as big as this
A virtual (fake) reality is only appealing to losers who have nothing going on in life. The incel/Discord/loser market isn’t big and substantive enough to float a scam as big as this
Losers, or the billions of people who have a harsh life in the real world, many of which are still in first world countries.
Whether you agree with the ethics or not, you can't argue that there isn't a huge market for escapism.
I don’t think even Zuck could tell you what the metaverse is. Most of his speeches sound just as generic as Tribune trying to sell TRONC.
The fact that the tech won out doesn’t mean they were wrong. The fact that we hold it dear today doesn’t make it good for our species or this planet.
I’m not a Luddite, but I’m quite skeptical about whether this ends well for us.
Metaverse is a much broader concept than any single company's branding or offerings. Facebook/Meta are just one player in the hot mess that the metaverse concept is right now. There's a bunch of proprietary offerings out there right now, and not a lot to be said about standardization to achieve any sort of interoperability between those offerings. AR and VR both will be key components of Metaverse shenanigans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse#Technology is worth a peek.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse#Technology is worth a peek.
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That creepy virtual Zuckerberg keeps me from going anywhere near it. The creepy real Zuckerberg does too, so, I won't be one of the billion. Not by choice at least.
I’m not average and I don’t even know what it is. Is it a virtual world like second life? Can I walk around in the metaverse ? I don’t know because I’ve never bothered to look it up and I haven’t received any ad about it even when I’m a heavily tech reader
Every vision of the future that has ever been presented was for-profit in some way.
Maybe. I suppose I'm interested in seeing some of the world's problems solved instead of all this ar/meta garbage. But I get it, life goes on and things advance as the trials and tribulations of humanity continue. It is the way of things and that's fine.
What I really meant was I'm tried of a half a dozen tech twerps capturing the media with their specific for-profit visions of the future. I guess I don't get how having everyone strapped into ar/meta makes the world a better place. But I'm not a visionary, so... whatever. It's time for some new twerps.
Now get off my lawn.
In Apple’s metaverse, interactions with other metaverses will be surrounded by big green clouds.
