Sorry, Meta. I Don’t Believe In The Metaverse Or At Least What You Want It To Become.
The Real World Is The Only World For Me.
Look, don’t get me wrong, I like the foundation of the metaverse, virtual reality. It’s a fun, cool, and new exciting piece of technology, that has huge benefits however, I do admit that AR appeals to me tens of times more simply because you are still at least (mostly) engaged with the real world.
VR already has several BIG problems, with a HUGE one that people are at their worst when nobody knows who they are, the internet was the first version of this, while being immersed in a whole different world, it could get next-level dangerous.
The vision of what the metaverse may become is what I despise the most.
To start, here are some forecasts from people you might have heard of before.
Mark Zuckerberg has said ‘Humans will live in the metaverse soon’.
Gartner has made the prediction that 25% of humans will spend at least an hour in the metaverse by 2026.
These are obviously very ambitious and I doubt that we’ll be any close to the metaverse in the near future
To these very BOLD predictions, I have two questions.
“What metaverse?”
“If somehow we’ll have the ‘metaverse’ ready in three and a half years, how is it possible to have people spend ONLY one hour a day in it?”
We don’t have a clue to what the metaverse is, we don’t even know what it should be and that’s a problem that will be asked many times more soon.
If I had to predict when the metaverse will be ready for full use (if it will even get to that stage), I would say by the earliest, 2040.
Also, not that we DON’T already spend more than 5 hours a day scrolling through smartphones, but the metaverse will make this SO much worse. We could spend up to 15 hours a day immersed in what I call a ‘fake world’.
Monuments, art, nature, wildlife, reality, the universe.
This gifted and amazing world, developed by millions over millions of years, is about to be defeated by a VR headset?
I would love for the metaverse to be some sort of extension of the real world by using AR instead of VR. This would make everything much more efficient and VR could still be involved.
People developing the metaverse are very talented and passionate about what they do, building what may be the future of life. This is not against any of these people or startups with this mission, it’s just my personal opinion.
The Metaverse could be crazy fun, but I’m not going to waste my REAL time in there.
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