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riderxc t1_j1dryk6 wrote

Reply to comment by DarthBuzzard in The Metaverse: More Hype Than Substance? by dogonix

That’s true, could be good for connecting to family. For the record, I own an Oculus and never use it. PlayStation is about 4 billion a year in sales and iPhone is about 150 billion a year. To be “the next big thing” you have to be at iPhone usership, personally I think it will only reach around Playstation user ship. But neither of us are right or wrong, that’s what futurology is all about.

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DarthBuzzard t1_j1dtdy9 wrote

Smartphones are the only form of technology at that level of popularity. Everything else is much less popular, even TVs.

So I don't think 'the next big thing' has to be as popular as smartphones to be honest.

I expect AR will get to that stage, but with VR taking off before AR, I can also see it being 'the next big thing' on the same level as something like PCs.

The reason why is because unlike a console, VR has many more uses. It's effectively a general purpose computing platform.

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