metaverse

“Do I think Mark's vision of spending 12 hours a day in the metaverse will come true? No.”

“The big problems with the metaverse are things like you know, studies out of China have shown it's more addictive, or more habit-forming like substantially more so than phones, because it's immersive.”

“When it comes to like us all hanging out in some metaverse, I just don't see the case for it.”

“You're gonna see things like that popping up on, you know, Meta's services in various various places. Generating images, effects, modifying images, generating video, generating music, sound effects, Three D models. Okay. Which of course is important for the me…”

“Honestly, my bet is that a smaller player will Figure it out first, just because there's so many different approaches and it's very hard as a large company to pick one approach that will out-compete every one of the myriad of other approaches that are all comi…”

“They can't say it's only for gamers or it's specifically for these niche enterprise use cases and then spend thirteen billion dollars because it just doesn't spreadsheet out. It only works as an investment if you believe in this long-term vision of the metaver…”

“I believed in this idea of a digital parallel world that exists alongside our own, blending the real and the virtual seamlessly through your daily life as something that is if not inevitable, at least very, very likely to be the last form of computing, aside f…”

“That's actually not what happened. They didn't cut spend at all. They, in fact, increased spend on the metaverse. I mean, they are not taking their foot off the gas pedal there, and they've just tried to trim elsewhere within the company.”

“I do think that they have a very a big problem with focus when it comes to new things coming out, right? Even just look at the fact that they renamed the company Meta. They reoriented around the metaverse.”