No. The "metaverse" failed to have its cool moment before corporations and greed took over. It missed the mark.<p>Whenever I hear about the "metaverse", I hear about Facebook, NFTs and corporations trying to outrun the trend. It makes it very uncool.<p>They skipped the step where young and "hip" people appropriate the platform and went straight away to corporate cringe and crypto grifting.
I work on my farm, study music, am developing a new product, and enjoy actual conversations with my trophy wife and amazing kids IRL. No time for “hanging out in the metaverse”, which sounds depressing AF.
Yes - mostly VRChat but other good ones when I can find them (usually custom maps for other games). I find the hangouts to be amazing about 40% of the time and I'm actively trying to build more spaces people can socialize in.<p>I've met some interesting and unusual people in VR.
Nope, it only innovates separating people from money<p>I play 10+ year old games that technically count, but I assume this is the corporate web3 'decentralized through nauseating repetition' idea instead
No. The commercialization of our public spaces in the real world is bad enough already, there's no way I'm opting into a commercialized-by-default virtual world to waste my time in.
So the answer for me is, I am not sure. I have a Oculus 2 and often "log in" and check it out. I use it primarily for entertainment purposes (like visiting world cities etc.). But I haven not have not purchased anything in the meta verse. Is that considered hanging out in meta verse or is that just old-fashioned VR?<p>My point is it is not clear to me what is meta verse and if it is supposed to be different from VR. I would love to read what other write about their experiences.
Yes, we do (non-VR) Roblox with my son and mom while also video chatting. I also started building there full time.<p>On my own time I also like to explore VRChat in VR, as it’s a nice counter to the sanitized Roblox worlds.
I prefer real world. I do hope all the annoying, self absorbed narcissist type people go and live in metaverse though. Would be awesome to finally live in a selfie free real world, just livin.