THE SCI-FI GURU WHO PREDICTED GOOGLE EARTH EXPLAINS SILICON VALLEY’S LATEST OBSESSION
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THE SCI-FI GURU WHO PREDICTED GOOGLE EARTH EXPLAINS SILICON VALLEY’S LATEST OBSESSION
"The emergence of the metaverse as a computer-generated scaled shared space means that there will be a whole new (virtual) world where we can express ourselves and potentially introduce a different version of who we are all while playing together, learning together, creating together and more. Essentially, we think of the metaverse as the next glob... See more
Cathy Hackl • Error PageSecurity Violation (403)
Facebook has on the order of 10,000 designers and engineers working on AR/VR. They are making a massive investment, and it appears to be working. The only other plausible contender right now is Apple. There are rumors they have a serious effort, but they are ultra secretive so we don’t really know. Google and Amazon don’t seem to be investing in AR... See more
Chris Dixon • Words With Web 3’s King: An Interview With Chris Dixon
New technologies are fundamentally about new ways of experiencing the world. And VR and AR will be the most immersive technologies yet, allowing you to deeply and powerfully experience a feeling or story or place. This is why VR and AR are central to breaking down Reality Privilege.
Rex Woodbury • Reality Privilege and Living Your Life Online
If you think about the way Spotify gave us access to the back catalogue of music, VR is going to give us access to the back catalogue of objects that we can look at or that we can interact with — with other people, anywhere that we go. Which is something that’s going to be different experience than the kind of 2D video chat that we have today.