Hardware and the Metaverse — MatthewBall.vc

But human history shows that additional computing power always leads to advances — which is exactly why the demand for compute has always exceeded its supply. To this end, Jensen Huang’s desire to emulate God’s divine design might seem excessive and impractical, but that requires predicting and dismissing the innovations that could come from it. Wh... See more

1) Hardware: The sale and support of physical technologies and devices used to access, interact with, or develop the Metaverse.

At the very least, Meta has openly laid out its plan for the Metaverse and paid lip service to interoperability, user ownership, and low fees. Apple has not. Even if Meta doesn’t live up to its words, a world in which it builds hardware and experiences that compete with Apple’s would be better for developers, creators, and users.

Thus my definition: the Metaverse is the set of experiences that are completely online, and thus defined by their malleability and scalability, which is to say that the Metaverse is already here. Sure, today’s experience is largely denominated by text and 2D, but video is already a major medium, first in the form of entertainment and now a vital to... See more