• HarkMahlberg
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    375 days ago

    They’re so desperate to make the real-life Snowcrash, Ready Player One, Matrix, they haven’t even acknowledged how hard metaverse flopped, nor how there’s no “smuggling” anything into a virtual “space”. They can’t stand the idea that what they really made was Worse Second Life 30 Years Later.

    • snooggums
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      154 days ago

      Apparently it mostly appeals to young children, or maybe people pretending to be young children.

      more than half of the metaverse’s active users are aged 13 and below.

      • OwlBoy
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        4 days ago

        This is because they include stuff like Roblox in the definition of Metaverse. I personally hate that.

        If we kept it to SocialVR titles, the demographics would shift to something more balanced, afaik. VRC bans people under 13 when they are discovered/reported.

        • snooggums
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          74 days ago

          Oh, so metaverse not Metaverse.

          Yeah, that isn’t confusing and stupid.

          • OwlBoy
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            34 days ago

            Yeah it sucks. Meta shit all over the term. And then every other company jumped on board claiming their stuff is a metaverse too. Even Microsoft claimed Teams was a metaverse.

            • Echo Dot
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              14 days ago

              Jesus I can’t think of anything I would want less than a Teams metaverse. Although I do have a macabre fascination as to how they could make the product even worse.