From "The Metaverse in 2040: Hype? Hope? Hell? Maybe all three." posted Monday by the Pew Research Center:
In all, 624 technology innovators, developers, business and policy leaders, researchers and activists provided open-ended responses to a question seeking their predictions about the trajectory and impact of the metaverse by 2040. The results of this nonscientific canvassing:
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- 54% of these experts said that they expect by 2040 the metaverse WILL be a much-more-refined and truly fully-immersive, well-functioning aspect of daily life for a half billion or more people globally.
- 46% said that they expect by 2040 the metaverse WILL NOT be a much-more-refined and truly fully-immersive, well-functioning aspect of daily life for a half billion or more people globally.
My take: 500 million is a market big enough to be of interest to Apple. Whether it will materialize -- and be interesting -- is still a toss of a coin.
Speaking of 76 reminds me of 1776.
Happy 4th of July! 🙂
No problem Romeo. 76 will come quickly for you. 🙂
Just ask Mark Gurman as he knows everything!
When new technologies come along there is a always a lot of aspirational greatness assigned to it.
When transcontinental phone lines were built some people thought this would bring live opera to the hinterland. The internet was supposed to promote democracy and education.
Generally the early profits are generated by porn.
A lot of time wasting content like Candy Crush will be generated.
I’m with Tim Cook on this. I think the more useful content will be AR. VR seems too isolating.
I could definitely see an AR version of Siri being a big help. If my regular glasses had AR built in, but mostly off, I could summon Siri to show me the current Apple price, the local weather, or find something on Wiki related to a current project. It would be great to have it there when I need it then quickly disappear.