The thing about the metaverse (and related tech) is that its success or failure rested entirely on the rate of improvement of the hardware. If the headset could present, say, an office that I could work from for 8 hours -- this would represent a massive disruption to the commercial real estate market. If I could sit down for a real conversation with my mother (who lives a 2 hour drive away) without it feeling like Zoom with motion sickness, that's a social game changer.
The problem is that the tech cannot actually do things even close to this caliber yet. The fidelity has not reached the uncanny valley yet, much less gotten over it. Zuckerberg clearly thought he could make this possible with Meta's resources, but that just didn't happen.
The problem is that the tech cannot actually do things even close to this caliber yet. The fidelity has not reached the uncanny valley yet, much less gotten over it. Zuckerberg clearly thought he could make this possible with Meta's resources, but that just didn't happen.