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"because if you’re not paying for a product you are the product."
That is 100% correct. But you may have noticed that the companies being hauled up in front of the US Congress are Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google. All of these "monetise" the user experience of their own customers. Why no Microsoft? Because Microsoft already pledged they will NEVER monetise their customers expeience. And I don't think any of these companies are too big to fail. The web is wide open for new players. Look at Tik-Tok.
When new "Metaverse" experiences come online many companies will be forced to acknowledge "Personal Data Sovereignty". In other words the User Experience belongs to the User, not to Facebook/Amazon/Google/Apple. Over the next few years the laws WILL be changed to tighten this up. I think this will shut down the "you are the product" game. Can only hope.
My personal belief is that the period of change between the (dysfunctional) Wordwide Web and the - as yet undefined - Metaverse gives us a chance to change the rules. There will be dozens/hundreds of new companies offering thousands of new applications. We have the chance to make it what we want, not be pushed around by Big Tech.
Too true. Apple once did a survey of their own employees sitting in the McFly's bar nearby asking them why they used their iPhone. There were about 200 people in the bar all looking at their iPhones and not engaging with ohers. The answer they got back was - they were using their iPhone to "meet people". Haha.
At least in this new 3d model people will actually have to look other people "in the eye" - or at least their avatar's eye (for the time being). Over time avatars will be replaced with the real thing.
And no, people will NOT have goggles strapped to their face. The company developing the industrial designs for some of these "AR glasses" is theItalian fashion design company Luxottica - who own Ray-Ban, Sunglasses Hut and just aboout every major fashion brand (Armani, Dior +90 more).
The way I look at it, when major technologies like this change, it gives consumers much more power. If the BIG TECH companies don't give us what we want, we have the opportunity to replace them.
I don't think people should be negative about the Metaverse. Just like the laptop displaced the PC and the smartphone displaced the laptop, the Metaverse will displace the World Wide Web (not the Internet) which a long time ago displaced the early Bulletin Boards. Far from being negative, these huge technology changes can benefit the consumer and consign companies that don't keep up to the "bustbin of history". Who remembers Nokia today? If Facebook/Microsoft et al don't give (us) consumers what they (we) want nobody will remember them in 20 years either.
I'm currently writing a (business) paper on the Metaverse which is the reason I found this wonderful site. I thought it would give me a look at a bunch of products. It did. But it also introduced me to a group of seriously talented people.
The key to the Metaverse is a move away from the old-fashioned screen to a more natural 3D environemnt. As Alex Kipman (Kinect/HoloLens) put it, the past 50 years will be seen in the future as a strange time when people spent much of their lives looking at the world through small two-dimensional screens. We'll all laugh at how backward we used to be.
Everyone on this website should welcome the Metaverse. The reason you're here is because you have (or are developing) skills in building 3D models and environments. In the next few years these will be highly valuable skills needed to fill the millions of new specialised design and development jobs the Metaverse will create.
And no, I seriously doubt Mark Zuckerberg will play any meaningful role.
