Watch a kid play rec room in VR and then explain how that pandemic home schooling would have made so much more sense if it worked the same way as the game building classes in Rec room work.
Observe the huge jump in fidelity of VRchat or rec room vs second life or Roblox.
Listen to how a kid describes the rec room versions of "squid games" without ever seeing the show on Netflix.
Metaverse is coming. Agree it driven by many distinct holistic experiences; but roblox v2 in a world like Rec Room puts the ball pretty far down the court in the groundwork for a platform of many experiences in one.
There will be aggregators that improve transactions, social networks, communication, ease of app building, distribution and discovery vs operating in discreet silos.
I see this meta name change as Facebook conditioning investors to rationalization of the huge amount of money it will spend buy companies that show early momentum in this direction.
No, VR is coming. The metaverse, as reiterated by the author and self-evidently obvious to anyone who has thought about it, has been here since the 90s, and is the internet. What Facebook is trying to do here is to impose a propietary interoperability gatekeeper layer on top of certain aspects of a VR-enabled internet. But the things they're offering are things that nobody is asking for. They will eventually quietly walk their ambitions back and content themselves with selling good VR headsets with some minimally-attractive Facebook integration.
Observe the huge jump in fidelity of VRchat or rec room vs second life or Roblox.
Listen to how a kid describes the rec room versions of "squid games" without ever seeing the show on Netflix.
Metaverse is coming. Agree it driven by many distinct holistic experiences; but roblox v2 in a world like Rec Room puts the ball pretty far down the court in the groundwork for a platform of many experiences in one.
There will be aggregators that improve transactions, social networks, communication, ease of app building, distribution and discovery vs operating in discreet silos.
I see this meta name change as Facebook conditioning investors to rationalization of the huge amount of money it will spend buy companies that show early momentum in this direction.