Evans: Moving to 3D Computing Is a Bigger Shift Than Mobile
Benedict Evans · How many metaverses? · Oct 31, 2022 · at 9:26
Benedict Evans compares the metaverse/VR paradigm shift with the desktop-to-mobile transition, noting desktop to mobile preserved the 2D medium of text, pictures, and video.
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“But the other side of it is that most of what we were doing remained in three D, in two D. Text is two D. Pictures are two D. Video is two D. Most of what we do is two D. And so the shift in character to move to three D is actually much bigger than the shift. You know, maybe what will happen, but it is a bigger change. If you believe that we'll go to move to predominantly three D experiences, that's a much bigger change. Then moving from desktop to mobile, or certainly a change of a different character.”
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