RIP Metaverse, We Hardly Knew Ye(businessinsider.com) |
RIP Metaverse, We Hardly Knew Ye(businessinsider.com) |
I realize the processing power I want can't be fit into a headset, so I'd be happy to be tethered to a high end desktop computer so I could explore virtual worlds. I get my exercise outdoors in nature. I don't want to be untethered playing beat saber like a teenager who drinks too many energy drinks.
> I don't want to be untethered playing beat saber like a teenager
Uh...
Well, I hope you don't find Virtual Desktop, ALVR, Oculus Link or any of the other plethora of wireless tethering softwares. After all, you don't want to look like a silly teenager or anything.
Apple has a history of taking something tired a number of times before (sometimes even by themselves, hello Newton) and succeeding at bringing it to the masses but time will tell.
I’m as of yet unconvinced that gaming isn’t the killer app VR has. The “work and communicate in your VR headset” vision from Meta I’m suspicious of, but Apple could do cheap casual gaming (beat saber et al.), fitness (beat saber with a fitness skin), and media consumption (big screen) really well, and they have all the services to funnel people towards for those use cases.
Gaming and media consomption are just so fun in VR where literally everything else is either annoying at best or painful at worst in my experience. Apple could just play in those very obvious bounds and make something worth while.
My current understanding is “The Metaverse” is a skeuomorphic 3D abstraction of group chat apps viewable in VR.
Put another way, in 10 years I think most consumers will wonder why we even bothered with tethering in the first place. Watching movies and playing games wirelessly is well worth the marginal drop in bitrate, in my experience.