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and early scope outs indicate it's going to be HUGE


pretty sure I'm going to pass


I'm not a good person to explain it


maybe others here are real knowledgeable about it


and there's always google


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I hate it when I accidentally send an e-mail before it's finished.

6 degrees of separation from OP may not be enuf

According to a friend, this is the new hot ****, I did buy some currencies that have to do with this. It might have been too late to buy, but wtf I have some dogs in the fight.

I think this is a great topic Op, whats up with all that? According to my friend, zuckerberg is the guy from the movie "ready, player one" , who created the metaverse there. Zuckerberg is doing this for real now. (or plans to) In that metaword, you can purchase stuff, hang out with your frieds, make new friends and do all kinds of crazy stuff.

THis video does a good job of explaining it:



For anyone not knowing what a metaverse is, its an artificial cyber world, parallel to the real one. In the Movie the Matrix, that was a metaworld, in the movie ready player one, that world they went to was a metaverse.



So Facebook changed their name to meta, I think this is a good move since everyone seems to be fed up with facebook. Especially since the 2016 election and the Cambridge Analytica Ltd scandal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica ("Cambridge Analytica Ltd (CA) was a British political consulting firm t..")


Facebook defintely messed up and had manipulated the election. Now that they own whatsapp and instagram too, they have more power than ever, but their original horse did take some damage in reputation, this is why, I think the same change is a smart move. But I am sure they will not get rid of it competely, that would probably be minus ev.

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta...t-union-2022-1

Being compared to how communism was hyped

I think the metaverse stuff is inevitable now as it is starting to gain enough dollars to get some critical mass. FB may have been the first giant to jump in, but as others announce and follow, there will be no stopping it. As stories of instant riches keep pouring in, more people will come.

I also think it poses one of the biggest ongoing challenges to mankind and societies as a whole. it will, imo, exasperate the societal issues FB feeds on by a factor of 1000 and once again FB will be leading us down that path.

screw NFTs, crypto, metverse, all of it. Just rich people exploiting the working class and destroying the envrionment simultaneously.

What's wrong with NFTs?

Virtual reality is going to be awesome. Metaverse is just anotehr step ont he way.

Going to repeat my solution to the 'where are the aliens?' problem. Maybe the 'real' world is just too staggeringly dull and limited by comparison

I think it'd be faster to explain what's not wrong with them, because that's probably a very short list in the current iteration. It seems to be a truly genius way to extract money from simpletons, but beyond that, not so useful.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of ridiculous things to spend your money on in life, but NFTs are at or near the very top of useless list.

We're at "pet rock" levels of whack.

It wil probably take more years and it may not be Musk but this is the future and it's not that far off.
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...ials-in-humans

The politics of this is that the progressve/liberal left will be failing spectacularly if they argue about whether it's happening or indulge in mocking rather than addressing the reality (no pun intended) that this is happening and happening very fast. We have to embrace it and influence how it happens, If we leave it to the market and the right because of denial or confusing politics with name calling then it will make the political problems caused by social nedia look like the the tinyest possible crumb of a cake walk by comparison.

holy **** do i agree with an inso0 post?

NFT's are ridiculous for how much they are hyped for a lot of very obvious reasons. One of which the artist or creator retains all of their copyrights. Second, and this is a big one, the place where the content the NFT refers to is stored is hosted by another party, which means if it's ever taken offline, you could be legit ****ed. See how many dead images are on older threads of this site if you want an example of how often that happens.

Regarding the metaverse, I see it much overhyped for similar reasons. One major problem is no one can really seem to define or agree on what the metaverse is, and I think that was on purpose.

A big component of it is peer to peer, decentralized data flow (supposed web 3.0). This is actually kind of hilariously devious, because it sounds nice on the surface, and would take your valuable data out of the hands of the 4 or 5 companies that own all of it. That's good, right?

This also means that as a consequence you are taking your data everywhere with you if I'm understanding the peer to peer concept correctly, and I may not be. This means that in this model you'd be exposing your information/data to basically anywhere on the internet you visit, which isn't that far from the dystopian hellscape we live in now, but it's obviously problematic. Not to mention, your "peer" could just store and use your data however they want (depending on what country you live in) which is the exact situation we're already in, except your exposure surface is way more massive.

There's other tertiary issues like the likely massive increase in internet bandwidth usage. I'm not convinced this would even scale with our given infrastructure.

I smell a lot of red flags here - it's purposely vague, poorly defined, and uses a lot of hot buzzwords like blockchain, AI, VR, and NFT's. This is usually a 100% sign that someone is selling you a load of ****.

Note: I want to make a caveat here, that my argument so far is based on this concept of "web 3.0," not so much the metaverse idea itself, because I do think it has interesting and likely massive implications in the gaming space. I don't think a company like microsoft is gonna throw a $90 billion hail mary at something completely dumb.

here ya go:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200912...ology-53987919

like 95% (likely more) of his claims are impossible from what we know about neuroscience today. Color me skeptical. I'm not sure what makes you so confident other than a consumption of too much sci fi and unwavering faith in what is probably one of the world's greatest charlatans ever.

Nothing to do with musk and I can't really be bothered to argue with thsoe who go down that sort of silly route.

Sadly i also have litle doubt that while the inevitable is happening, so many of the people who will later complain about how it's being abused, will spend all their time in denial of the substance while mocking the hype and the froth

Monitoring what makes people look and much they look at it is a brilliant way to gather consumer and behavioral data though, you gotta give them that.

I don't expect many of you to watch a 2 hour YouTube video, but I did.

Cliffs: The ponzi scheme is going to collapse harder than the housing market in the late 00s.



I had no idea how expansive this was.

If someone tried VR headsets for gaming, could you share your experience? Did you like playing games on Oculus (or whatever else is there) headset? Would you recommend your friends to buy a VR headset?

I don't know about it being a second second life, but it has serious potential for being the new Steam (central gaming hub), Zoom (remote meeting space for work & family), and Amazon (virtual storefront; turn items around in 3d)


I see the bottleneck as hardware not utility, but we are all on home/personal computers now

Do you realize how big that collapse was? Also, because of the community reinestment act, the collapse was aided by government, which usually generate the biggest collapses

fun read