I am surprised not to see a thread on this but perhaps I have overlooked it. Anyway I wanted to make this thread for discussion about Meta and The Metaverse.
Mark Zuckerberg had rebranded Facebook as Meta and is now pushing this Metaverse which seems to be an attempt to bring what we see in ready player one to reality with people meeting up in digital space even being able to conduct and attend VR lectures and of course virtual games.
I have owned VR for years and have always been an advocate for it. I think it's a great way to game and immerse yourself in a virtual world. Most people however never use VR and it seems to be quite niche in relation to the population of the earth even though the number of actual users are in the millions.
To have one of the biggest corporations in the world push for integrating VR into people's lives is something I see as a positive for VR gamers. The more adoption there is the more developers will dedicate their efforts to producing content.
The problem I think is the mainstream VR headsets at the moment. They are still somewhat cumbersome, you can't read small text as it appears blurry and if you need glasses with different prescriptions for each eye then it can make life difficult indeed.
There are actually amazing VR headsets now on the market that can track your eye movement and have super high resolution allowing you to focus on very small text and of course can be calibrated to work with the individual users glasses prescription. The problem is the $5000 price tag for these things. Most won't buy this even though it has the features which will ensure mass adoption. These need to be made cheaper and I have no doubt they will. Mobile phone technology has vastly improved over the past decade. They are basically mini computers now. VR headsets will also improve to the point where the cheaper models will contain this technology but until that happens I don't think we will see mass adoption.
What do you think of the idea of the Metaverse and are you excited about the future of VR?
Mark Zuckerberg had rebranded Facebook as Meta and is now pushing this Metaverse which seems to be an attempt to bring what we see in ready player one to reality with people meeting up in digital space even being able to conduct and attend VR lectures and of course virtual games.
I have owned VR for years and have always been an advocate for it. I think it's a great way to game and immerse yourself in a virtual world. Most people however never use VR and it seems to be quite niche in relation to the population of the earth even though the number of actual users are in the millions.
To have one of the biggest corporations in the world push for integrating VR into people's lives is something I see as a positive for VR gamers. The more adoption there is the more developers will dedicate their efforts to producing content.
The problem I think is the mainstream VR headsets at the moment. They are still somewhat cumbersome, you can't read small text as it appears blurry and if you need glasses with different prescriptions for each eye then it can make life difficult indeed.
There are actually amazing VR headsets now on the market that can track your eye movement and have super high resolution allowing you to focus on very small text and of course can be calibrated to work with the individual users glasses prescription. The problem is the $5000 price tag for these things. Most won't buy this even though it has the features which will ensure mass adoption. These need to be made cheaper and I have no doubt they will. Mobile phone technology has vastly improved over the past decade. They are basically mini computers now. VR headsets will also improve to the point where the cheaper models will contain this technology but until that happens I don't think we will see mass adoption.
What do you think of the idea of the Metaverse and are you excited about the future of VR?