I have to say, after watching the Facebook Connect 2021 keynote, I came away with several impressions that I thought didn’t really fit my view of Facebook as a company. One was, there are people doing some good research there. A second was, most of it is moving in the right direction.
Much as I dislike Facebook, I can’t deny that someone should build the metaverse, and they seemed to have picked up the baton with some gusto. I think this is about the only way it would get built, because I don’t see investors stumping up the (rough ballpark figure) 2-5 billion dollars it’s going to cost to make it.
Is this Apple and Microsoft missing a trick? I think the virtual economy is going to be worth a lot of money, but it is a software project first of all, not exactly where Apple’s focus has been. It has the potential to be give stewardship of a large slice of the internet.
There’s much here to think about, that’s for sure.
Much as I dislike Facebook, I can’t deny that someone should build the metaverse, and they seemed to have picked up the baton with some gusto. I think this is about the only way it would get built, because I don’t see investors stumping up the (rough ballpark figure) 2-5 billion dollars it’s going to cost to make it.
Is this Apple and Microsoft missing a trick? I think the virtual economy is going to be worth a lot of money, but it is a software project first of all, not exactly where Apple’s focus has been. It has the potential to be give stewardship of a large slice of the internet.
There’s much here to think about, that’s for sure.
