metaverse
11 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 24, 2021 by Kevin Chou · across every show →
Everything said about metaverse, oldest first
May 24, 2021 bullish
Chou: Metaverse fashion will spawn digital equivalents of Supreme
“I think there's going to be a whole incredibly rich category now that you can create true and authenticated scarcity, you know, of fashion. I think the kind of Supremes and other, you know, equivalents will start to emerge in the metaverse.”
Nov 22, 2022
Stephenson: The metaverse is a single unitary space, not multiple metaverses
“Tony Parisi has got seven rules of the metaverse, and rule number one is that there's only the metaverse. There's not a bunch of metaverses. So that, for me, is a strong indicator. If I see someone talking about our metaverse or a metaverse, yeah, I immediatel…”
Nov 22, 2022 neutral
Stephenson: Mass-market metaverses must enforce standardized avatar size constraints
“I do think that almost any plausible metaverse that I can think of, there's going to have to be some understanding around the size of avatars. It just doesn't make sense and it doesn't work if you've got some avatars that are a 100,000 times bigger than others…”
Nov 22, 2022 negative
Nov 22, 2022
Nov 22, 2022 bullish
Stephenson: AI will populate and animate virtual environments in the metaverse
“In the metaverse, I think we're going to see virtual environments that are populated and brought to life by AI. In some cases, it's going to be so what you might think, which is non-player characters that Walk around and, you know, deliver the mail or whatever…”
Nov 22, 2022
Stephenson: Widely used modern technology is pre-metaverse, not true metaverse
“In general, to address the specific things that you mentioned I think anything that's being used a lot today probably is not very metaverse-like, because in general, when people talk about the metaverse, they're talking about the next thing that's coming along…”
Nov 22, 2022 neutral
Nov 22, 2022 neutral
Stephenson: Mass metaverses will replicate physical architecture like roofs and walls
“I think people are comforted by shelter, by the feeling of privacy that you get when there's some walls around you, there's a roof over your head. So we're going to see those forms recapitulated in metaverse experiences that are geared towards drawing in a mas…”
Dec 27, 2022 negative
Oct 13, 2023 bullish
Zuckerberg: Metaverse's advantage over phones is shared physical presence
“The thing that you can do in the metaverse that is different from what you can do on a phone is like doing stuff where you're physically there together and Participating in things together, and we could play games like this.”