The real selling point would be that everyone else is using it and you need to use it to interact with them, same with FB. How many people are still forced to maintain a FB account to talk to their boomer relatives?
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ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 month agoNo. The entire concept is just dumb. Adding less efficient means of doing things isn’t a selling point.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Except no one is using it because it’s dumb. You need to get people there first before that longevity matters.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Clearly the idea isn’t done because there are other versions of the metaverse that work very well and are making money.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
What do you mean?
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
ChatVR, RecRoom, Roblox, BattleBit, Project Loom (Which Google killed for no reason, but it wasn’t because of lack of success), and of course the OG, Second Life.
Hell you could even make the arguement for Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen if they ever finish it.
Some of those projects haven’t just been successful they’re so successful that they are starting to affect government policy.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
How have they affected government policy, beyond Roblox probably causing some laws being passed about exploitation and protection of minors?
You have a point, I think the big thing FB failed to capitalize on is that someone who wants to use ChatVR or Roblox has to go into chatVR or roblox. FB had an opportunity to build an entire ecosystem they control, and they failed to get anyone inside of it.
I genuinely have no idea how they managed to spend that much money and not get a single decent app. Horizons literally looked like a tech demo someone slapped together for a gamejam or something.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 month ago
You’re just listing random games, none of which are remotely related to the metaverse…