Tech oligarchs are encouraging the creation of virtual worlds as a cheap way to avoid problems in the real one.

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Give it time, even at an estimated 5 million Facebook Quest units sold, we're still pretty early in the VR tech adoption cycle; Viable consumer VR wasn't even really a thing until about 10 years ago. As the tech improves, becomes lighter, more sensory captivating, AR tech will as well and between the two we'll end up with a considerable segment of the population spending most of their time in a curated echo chamber under control of some major corporation (probably fb/meta).