Re:Hold the postmortem: The metaverse was never alive in the...
by Animats on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:10PM
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> There's also a lot of that magic happening in the world of GPUs right now.
I wish. It's not happening from NVidia.[1] NVidia will sell you an awesome GPU for an awesome price, but price/performance is advancing very slowly. NVidia's current entry level GPU card for desktops is $400. Also, NVidia's laptop GPUs that dissipate 130 watts are kind of a problem.
> The boringness seems like a game design problem.
Yes. We might see solutions from VR natives. See Phia's Virtual Reality Show.[1] Phia, in her early 20s and into VR for years, talks with insight about both gear and the social aspects of virtual worlds.[2] So far, though, no major breakthroughs.
The Yuga Labs / Otherside people
tried making their virtual world a very expensive and exclusive experience to get into, in hopes of getting a non-loser crowd. But that turned out to be a Make Money Fast scheme that didn't deliver. Now the SEC is after them.[3]
I wish. It's not happening from NVidia.[1] NVidia will sell you an awesome GPU for an awesome price, but price/performance is advancing very slowly. NVidia's current entry level GPU card for desktops is $400. Also, NVidia's laptop GPUs that dissipate 130 watts are kind of a problem.
> The boringness seems like a game design problem.
Yes. We might see solutions from VR natives. See Phia's Virtual Reality Show.[1] Phia, in her early 20s and into VR for years, talks with insight about both gear and the social aspects of virtual worlds.[2] So far, though, no major breakthroughs.
The Yuga Labs / Otherside people tried making their virtual world a very expensive and exclusive experience to get into, in hopes of getting a non-loser crowd. But that turned out to be a Make Money Fast scheme that didn't deliver. Now the SEC is after them.[3]
[1] https://www.techspot.com/review/2206-geforce-rtx-3070-laptop...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg_XB8It240
[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/bored-ape...