When Meta was first hyped, I couldn't help but see it as a rehash of the hype from the 90s about the internet.
Here, you've thoroughly fleshed out the issue except for the flesh. Yes, gaming drove things, but remember that porn was also driving things, especially the video technology.
Realistic, immersive virtual reality porn has always been in the back of many minds, and those experiences are prohibitively expensive, dangerous, and rare in real life.
It's really hard to say. The interesting thing with Silicon Valley is there's so much hype and so much obfuscation that the only two reactions are like ' this will never happen' or ' this is going to alter the universe'.
I do think out of all the hype factory churn - Mars, Self driving cars, AGI - the metaverse is the one that's closest to becoming true simply because the technology isn't a long way off and it keeps improving.
A lot of VR equipment are where chips used to be in the eighties.
You are right about porn - it taps into some of humanity's deepest desires - at the end of the day, we're just bonobos with smartphones - and it is severely regulated. I think it will simply facilitate all sorts of new relationships and sexualities.
People will take sexual risks in the 'metaverse' they won't take in real life. Funny enough, I think it will help people with their relationships. A lot of people have grown up on this heavy diet of social media and video games and lack certain interpersonal and romantic abilities as a result.
Now, that touch and sight is back, maybe the ability to do all that will return. Or maybe people will just spend their lives in fantasy universes ( like a few gamers already do) and we would have new addictions on our hand. It's too early to tell.
What do you think. Do you think virtual reality is a net plus for society overall.
When Meta was first hyped, I couldn't help but see it as a rehash of the hype from the 90s about the internet.
Here, you've thoroughly fleshed out the issue except for the flesh. Yes, gaming drove things, but remember that porn was also driving things, especially the video technology.
Realistic, immersive virtual reality porn has always been in the back of many minds, and those experiences are prohibitively expensive, dangerous, and rare in real life.
How will that drive things?
It's really hard to say. The interesting thing with Silicon Valley is there's so much hype and so much obfuscation that the only two reactions are like ' this will never happen' or ' this is going to alter the universe'.
I do think out of all the hype factory churn - Mars, Self driving cars, AGI - the metaverse is the one that's closest to becoming true simply because the technology isn't a long way off and it keeps improving.
A lot of VR equipment are where chips used to be in the eighties.
You are right about porn - it taps into some of humanity's deepest desires - at the end of the day, we're just bonobos with smartphones - and it is severely regulated. I think it will simply facilitate all sorts of new relationships and sexualities.
People will take sexual risks in the 'metaverse' they won't take in real life. Funny enough, I think it will help people with their relationships. A lot of people have grown up on this heavy diet of social media and video games and lack certain interpersonal and romantic abilities as a result.
Now, that touch and sight is back, maybe the ability to do all that will return. Or maybe people will just spend their lives in fantasy universes ( like a few gamers already do) and we would have new addictions on our hand. It's too early to tell.
What do you think. Do you think virtual reality is a net plus for society overall.