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Playlanco t1_itbsqby wrote

Do people think Metaverse is a single app? That the metaverse fails or succeeds based on the performance of one app?

If not, do they expect all the various apps and services within the metaverse to magically succeed without failure?

I would imagine there would be plenty of failed endeavors in virtual reality. Especially in it's infancy.

Like the multiple dot.com and e-commerce crashes throughout the late 90's and early 2000's. There should be failed ideas, businesses, and services.

I have been in the IT industry professionally for a long time. I get these r/Technology suggested posts but honestly this subreddit does not feel like it has IT professionals in it.

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DarthBuzzard t1_itbubqz wrote

> I get these r/Technology suggested posts but honestly this subreddit does not feel like it has IT professionals in it.

Correct. Most people in here are tech-illiterate, but they mask themselves as if they are somehow knowledgeable.

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bkconn t1_itbu784 wrote

Some journalists also seem to think that if you don't like some technology or product that's coming out, you can just "cancel" it by continuously writing bad articles about how it needs to be stopped.

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sheeshshosh t1_itbtbc9 wrote

>Do people think Metaverse is a single app?

I think people kind of expect the Metaverse, in its "ideal" form, to effectively be a single app, yeah. What's the point if it's just a hodgepodge of apps and platforms, like we have now, only viewed through a set of unwieldy goggles?

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Playlanco t1_itbv3up wrote

Being that the original meaning of the metaverse being basically the internet in virtual reality, yes it should be a hodgepodge of apps and services.

It seems people heard the word metaverse and think we will all live in virtual houses, walking virtual dogs, and shopping down virtual isles at supermarkets.

That's not the metaverse, that's a video game app for a virtual life. While there will be multiple games like this, it's not what the metaverse is.

The closet thing to the metaverse is Oculus Home (not Horizons), Steam VR, Windows Mixed Reality.

These platforms are in very early stages and mimic the dawn of internet services from AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy.

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RandomMiddleName t1_itbxz48 wrote

Technology is so ubiquitous in daily life that non-IT professionals will want to learn more and have opinions. You could have wrote your comment to be informative, but instead you decided to be a dick. Hence why your profession has a reputation of lacking soft skills.

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foundafreeusername t1_itdgwf4 wrote

If you are genuinely interested I am working on a list to counter the misinformation here. Here is what the media (and most r/technology users) get wrong:

  • Many here are convinced the billions of $ are spent on a piece of VR software while in truth it is mostly research for novel hardware, AI and a platform to run other software ... To compare it to Apple: They are trying to build an entire new device category and ecosystem like the iPhone once did not just another mobile phone. Also note: This is a goal they want to reach not a product they are selling right now.

  • Most headline and articles use the word metaverse wrong. It isn't a piece of software. You can compare it to a web standard like HTML5. Once it exists it is suppose to allow all companies and developers to build VR/AR software that can interact with each other. It comes from the book Snow Crash. It is a virtual world that is accessed through a headset. Imagine it as a Holodeck from Star Trek.

  • A lot of users here got mislead thinking Meta's software has only 30 users. That article was about an entirely different attempt to build a "metaverse" by a crypto company.

  • and the legs: A lot users here seem to think Facebook can't figure out how to render legs under their avatar. In truth they are working on a new technology that can track your entire body while wearing a VR headset. Similar to Kinect but without any additional hardware. And remember: This needs to work for all possible VR experience not just their own software. An walking animation wouldn't do the job if someone else wants to play football in VR.

  • Are they just building another Second Life? There are some similarities but a lot of differences as well: Second Life is just piece software and controlled via mouse & keyboard. It was never very useful as a platform for other companies to create new products. If you build a football game in Second Life you create animations to interact with the ball and other players, you decide on the run speed of the characters, you map keys on your keyboard to specific actions to control your avatar and you see your own camera in third person. It is a lot of work. In a proper metaverse all need is to drop a ball and start playing with your friends. Everything that had to be manually done in Second Life is done automatically by the VR headset, body tracking and physics simulation.

Edit: still updating it

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IceAgeMeetsRobots t1_itgx6yy wrote

>Hence why your profession has a reputation of lacking soft skills.

It's still one of the highest paying industries in the entire world. This industry has the most valuable companies in the entire world. Most people are technology illiterate when most of the modern world runs on said technology. It's not their fault people like you are stupid.

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RandomMiddleName t1_itgz9w0 wrote

Spoken like a typical engineer who thinks everyone else is stupid and therefore talks down to them. Just because it’s a high paying job in a highly valued industry, doesn’t make the profession the top of the food chain.

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IceAgeMeetsRobots t1_ith9owq wrote

The truth hurts. White collar workers in STEM, outside of celebrities and influencers, are at the top of the food chain.

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DarthBuzzard t1_itc2csk wrote

> that non-IT professionals will want to learn more and have opinions.

Unfortunately that is rare on this subreddit. Most people that comment here have no intention to learn, because the majority of sources/statistics/studies that gets posted are disregarded and downvoted, with anecdotal opinions being the prevailing truth.

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JalapenoJamm t1_itcdiot wrote

Any stats to back that up?

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foundafreeusername t1_itdf1rm wrote

Just check out all metaverse posts ... It is really bad currently. Most users spread outright misinformation and the same people repeat it under every post.

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