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Why did the metaverse die? Because Silicon Valley doesn’t understand the concept of fun (www.fastcompany.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The new demo for what? I have no idea what you are talking about. I'd like to think I know a bit about metaverses as a VR enthusiast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would presume they're referring to the videos of Quest 3's passthrough capabilities

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my favorite part of that video is when he says (paraphrasing):

this is like a video call, and that's cool.. but we can do so much more.. like, we can ... have meetings

such vision :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I laughed when lex was like wow it doesn't even feel awkward that I'm right in face and zuc said nah it does

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah that is real impressive, I thought we would be years away from the realistic meta avatars becoming usable on actual hardware. I don't really understand what's so metaversey about this though, Apple showed off the same concept with no ties to the idea of metaverses.

EDIT: I watched a bit more and hearing Mark's ideas of the metaverse he wants honestly sounds very similar to the plans and sdk's for the Apple Vision Pro. I don't know if this is truly what the future will be, but it seems exciting.

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