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I despise the metaverse

Call me a Luddite but I couldn’t give two fucks about the metaverse. Would rather explore the real world more.

You Luddite.

Is the metaverse something you can virtually visit like that?

I believe you can visit it now? Or some beta version of it. Populated by cartoon avatars and the like.

I didn't think it existed yet & was just a plan for future business to rip money out of people!

I don't think anyone's really crying out for it. Least of all, if anyone does, do they want to have to wear 3d headset things to do it in?

Analytics firm looking to land big client in makes the client look amazing shock.

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It's a platform, nothing else.

Facebook is looking to create a walled garden that people feel they have to get into - and they'll entice people with all sorts of promises.

Once enought critical mass is achieved, and they have lobbied enough to make it quasi-infrastructural, they'll monetise the fuck out of it.

This is still one of my favourite videos, I never understood why the Google glass project didn’t gain more traction in the consumer market

https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs

Is there, like, a URL for the metaverse?

Weird, another company the same name as mine!

I spend most of my time telling clients that facebook doesn't work, to the point that they have got annoyed with me and asked for a meeting...

If this means that there's less Facebook users walking around in the real world, then I'm all for it

https://youtu.be/v2FMqtC1x9Y

If anyone's not read Ready Player One, it's basically the metaverse

And for anyone who has read Ready Player One and not read Ready Player Two, lucky you.

Haha I haven't bothered with the second one

There seems to be a lot of metametrics about.

"MetaMetric Solutions" (their website doesn't work...) claim to be a "provider of Metaverse data and insights".

And they're telling people that the Metaverse is a BigThing™.

Uh huh.

So they're totally not just a firm spun up to promote Metaverse.

I mean, it's a well trodden scifi trope.

Snow Crash, for example.

Went into a lot of detail about the real estate value of a virtual world.

It even coins the phrase "Metaverse".

If Neuromancer is anything to go by being locked out of the Metaverse will be seen as a punishment in a few years.

Please sir, I'm ready for my punishment already.

hmmm! Going to be even more of them in the next year too.

There are two originals. We were formed in 2010, and their is a US based education company called MetaMetrics Inc. who have also been around ages.

I'm sure we will outlast most of them...

A very sensible decision.

Very much reads like a book written because someone wanted to make a film out of it.

Don't, in a rare exception the film is actually better. I got the book for free and still regretting spending my time on it.

The first book lasted about half a chapter. It's in a very small set of books that I have demanded a refund for.

Maybe...maybe we are already in the Metaverse

Betcha didn't think about that did ya?

I’ll cast my opinion on most things rightly or wrongly.