Dave Baszucki: prediction

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…Do you think the Mark Zuckerberg vision of the metaverse is dead, or will AI bring it back in some form? The idea that normal people would spend two, three hours a day in something like the metaverse, having fun, building things, trading with AIs, whatever. I don’t think that’s dead at all. Generally, if we go back through the sci-fi literature, those things mostly come to pass. I do think sometimes they come to pass at their own pace. There’s that early Dune movie where they were playing with a digital tablet. It looks a lot like an iPad right now. I think following that movie, we saw Apple cycle through. We cycled through the PalmPilot. We cycled through the Apple Newton tablet. It was only a fair amount of time later we popped on the iPhone and the iPad. I feel we’re seeing more and more people play in immersive environments. We are starting to see, as you can imagine, all of the trappings around concerts and other type of utility use, birthday parties. We’re not fully in the full-blown video level of use that we’re doing right now that arguably accelerated during COVID. I do think, ultimately, immersive 3D simulation will be a superset of video. We will have photorealistic immersive 3D communication. We’ll choose to use that just because it’ll be easier than video. I don’t think it’s dead at all. Why is Mutiny on the Bounty one of your favorite books?…

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