alt Hacker NewsGenerative AI is going to drive the marginal cost of building 3D interactive content to zero. Unironically this will unlock the metaverse, cringe as that may sound. I'm more bullish than ever on AR/VR.
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AR/VR doesn't has a 3D model issue.
It has a 'why would I strap on a headset for stuff I can do without'
I will not starting meeting friends just because of the meta verse. I have everything I need already.
And even video calls with Whatsapp is alweird as f.
Jeez I'd love to know what Apple's R&D debt on Vision Pro is, based on current sales to date. I really really hope they continue to push for a headset that's within reach of average people but the hole must be so deep at this point I wouldn't be surprised if they cut their losses.
AR needs a bragging app.. something like the dharma/content you create in virt growing out of your footsteps in real - and why visible on cellphone, feeling more native in with AR-googles
Maybe eventually. Based on this quality I don't see this happening any time in the near future.
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I can only speak for myself, but a Metaverse consisting of infinite procedural slop sounds about as appealing as reading infinite LLM generated books, that is, not at all. "Cost to zero" implies drinking directly from the AI firehose with no human in the loop (those cost money) and entertainment produced in that manner is still dire, even in the relatively mature field of pure text generation.