Facebook on Monday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the "metaverse", a virtual reality version of the internet that the tech giant sees as the future.
That's the thing though. People don't want it. Closing yourself off inside headphones and a headset as well as however other many peripherals you need to make it better is not what people want. It's fun for full immersion single player games (in the sense that you have nobody else in the room with you) and absolutely nothing else.
The very concept of the technology ignores the fact that people live in family households with other people. That 2 parents and some kids are supposed to all have one of these and all close themselves off from one another in VR.
It ignores the material reality of what most people's home lives are actually like.
They've taken their ideological individualism and gone so far into it they've become divorced from reality and do not realise this shit will never ever work with current households.
FB's current VR headset costs what a used phone costs, and everyone has phones.
All they have to do at this point is start forcing people into it.
That's the thing though. People don't want it. Closing yourself off inside headphones and a headset as well as however other many peripherals you need to make it better is not what people want. It's fun for full immersion single player games (in the sense that you have nobody else in the room with you) and absolutely nothing else.
The very concept of the technology ignores the fact that people live in family households with other people. That 2 parents and some kids are supposed to all have one of these and all close themselves off from one another in VR.
It ignores the material reality of what most people's home lives are actually like.
They've taken their ideological individualism and gone so far into it they've become divorced from reality and do not realise this shit will never ever work with current households.