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.
This shit has happened multiple times and multiple times it has failed.
The Palace was first, a chat app where you use avatars to navigate buildings and interact with others.
Second Life, similar but in THREE DIMENSIONS woaw! Every company poured millions into it and completely wasted their money.
Now this shit. Same will happen again. They will push it incredibly hard and it will just become some incredibly niche thing. The massive amount of investment that goes into it will create digital corporate wastelands full of digital corporate crap nobody wants or needs.
I think this happens because VR only appeals to an extremely small slice of the population, but this group is extremely over represented in the tech dev space.
This shit has happened multiple times and multiple times it has failed.
The Palace was first, a chat app where you use avatars to navigate buildings and interact with others.
Second Life, similar but in THREE DIMENSIONS woaw! Every company poured millions into it and completely wasted their money.
Now this shit. Same will happen again. They will push it incredibly hard and it will just become some incredibly niche thing. The massive amount of investment that goes into it will create digital corporate wastelands full of digital corporate crap nobody wants or needs.
I think this happens because VR only appeals to an extremely small slice of the population, but this group is extremely over represented in the tech dev space.