Hold the postmortem: The metaverse was never alive in the first place

Re:Hold the postmortem: The metaverse was never alive in the... by poglet on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @12:17AM (#36121073)

GTA V appears to be a very popular multiplayer game, so if a metaverse could have GTA V graphics and multiplayer performance then surely some GTA like activities could be implemented.

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Re:Hold the postmortem: The metaverse was never alive in the... by hef19898 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @02:52AM (#36121877)

Which raises question of why people should not just simply play GTA, doesn't it?

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Re:Hold the postmortem: The metaverse was never alive in the... by blowski on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @02:57AM (#36121896)

I can play GTA on my Xbox for 3 hours. On an Oculus, my head hurts after 20 minutes.

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Re:Hold the postmortem: The metaverse was never alive in the... by ffgjgf1 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:04AM (#36121934)

But there appear to be no real use cases other than gaming?

And that’s a narrow subset of a subset of just single market.

It seems that Facebook was aiming at something bigger than that but they actually couldn’t even offer a coherent argument on what VR could offer outsiders of gaming.

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Re:Hold the postmortem: The metaverse was never alive in the... by someweirdperson on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:25AM (#36122064)

> ... surely some GTA like activities could be implemented.

Running over people in cars? Who would be the players to volunteering to being ran over?

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Re:Hold the postmortem: The metaverse was never alive in the... by bandrami on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @08:15AM (#36123874)

I mean, I don't play GTA, so there's that? And if I did play GTA I would... I don't know... play GTA, rather than playing a less interesting version of GTA.

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