alt Hacker NewsEveryone likes to shit on Meta for pouring unfathomable amounts of money into VR and the metaverse, but I still think it was a wise play. Once AI crashes into VR properly it will produce the kind of disruptive changes the article touches on. The reason we're not detecting any alien species is because they gave up on exploration after they all disappeared into their personal Goonspheres and never re-emerged. Heroin has nothing on what the future is bringing.
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I think their headsets were genuinely game changers in cost/value. It was so much easier to use than many previous headsets that cost way more. It felt like it had the makings of a watershed moment, but I think we can all see where they fell short. The ecosystem, the brand pulling it down, and the corporate washed feel of the whole thing. Blade runner cyber dystopia it was not, utopian star trek future it was not. It was the office, but in your home. No one wants that.
I hate that I understand your last point by the way ha.
I doubt it’s because of the money but because the choose stand alone mobile graphics over PC graphics
Once we have direct neural inputs VR will explode. Or at least the ability to wire directly into the optic nerves.
VR, or at least AR, is obviously the future. But Meta, like so many companies before them, saw the future and tried to jump on board way before it was the right time. See: WebTV, the tablet PCs from the early 1990s (!!), Apple Newton, Palm Pilot, etc. (I call it the first mover disadvantage!)