I once spent a half-year working on a manual for an online shopping service.
Unfortunately, the year was 1984.
The point is that while it’s easy to ridicule the metaverse, the enabling technology already exists. The vision is easy to express.
When Mark Zuckerberg thinks of the metaverse, he first sees the oculus headset and haptic gloves he’s been developing for nearly a decade. The former can deliver an artificial, or partly artificial, set of visual and auditory inputs. The latter can deliver other senses, like touch, taste, and smell, simply by assigning values to them and transmitting the values, while having the necessary client equipment on-hand to translate the values back into experience.
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