Unless I’m mistaken, the most popular fiction in which VR is wildly popular is… Ready Player One, Snow Crash, and Neuromancer. And in all of them, VR is only popular because people are trying to escape the hellscape that unrestrained capitalism has turned the planet into.
I dunno. Give it a few more years, maybe.
That’s also because in VR you could build, inhabit, and explore worlds that felt real, giving you a sense of liberty in a world largely without. In the real world, VR has already been tainted by the capitalism - indeed, Decentraland specifically is largely a collection of vacant lots, half-finished projects, and corporate playgrounds. The most functional areas are those owned by megacorps.
Capitalism beat us to VR. The choice will be live in the real world, where there are at least some spaces for you outside of the system, or dive into a constructed one run by the people you were initially trying to escape.
The future is a dead mall
And people still don’t know what the fuck a metaverse is
A masterclass in colossal failure
Plus finding out doesn’t help.
“What’s a metaverse”
“It’s Second Life VR”
“Oh, no thanks”
You’re pretty mistaken here this is a nft gift
One with legs and mark zuckdeeznutz selfie of him behind a ugly fr🤮nch tower is horizon worlds which is terrible in its own right but does have a way bigger userbase which is starting to grow <i></i>
