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The Head Of Harmonix Talks About The Future Of Fortnite, The Metaverse, And Music
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There is no such thing. But rarely is there less of it than when people slap that label on Fortnite. Christ alive, John Carmack's original plans for Quakeworld were closer to what Snow Crash described, and I'll bet Carmack knows Neal Stephenson was telling a rude joke.
There are many Metaverses like VRChat and Rec Room. Very small still in terms of global users as it is just so insignificant right now, but that will change in the decades to come. Carmack does believe in the Metaverse as he once said:
“I have pretty good reasons to believe that setting out to build the metaverse is not actually the best way to wind up with the metaverse."
I agree. The Metaverse will just emerge naturally as no one really knows what will bring the people right now. Like Walkabout Minigolf has turned out to be a fairly large Metaverse even though few would think of it as such. My VR Theme Park that is online is the same. These are the emerging Metaverses. There will be many more coming. It has to be immersive to be the Metaverse so thinks like Fortnite would not count presently.
Based on what, exactly? Hopes and dreams?
Face it... the metaverse is a dead mall.
Even that reading is giving it too much credit, by calling it what it wants to be. Money-addicts could build The Oasis. They cannot build the metaverse. No individual force can. No more than any single billionaire dork could have built the internet. A network, yes. A network of networks, yes. But it can't be the network of all networks, unless it's a cooperative endeavor of basically everyone.
And it'd never work as-described because a flat objective map of virtual space is dumb as hell. Like asking which website is north of Reddit.
It shouldn't take an in-depth two-hour video to dismiss "virtual real estate." Saying it out loud will do.
Dead? It is still being incubated.