{"id":10555,"date":"2022-03-11T23:40:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T23:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1382424"},"modified":"2022-03-11T23:40:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T23:40:34","slug":"youre-wrong-about-the-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=10555","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re wrong about the metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Baseball\u2019s back and I couldn\u2019t care less. What I\u2019m excited about is the world champion Atlanta Braves\u2019 new virtual stadium.<\/p>\n

A company called Surreal Events is working with the champs to bring a virtual representation of Truist Park to life via a virtual platform-as-a-service model built in the Unreal engine.<\/p>\n

As boring as that sounds, the emergence of an interface-agnostic portal to bespoke metaverses might be what finally convinces the cynical masses that the future is now.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not so much that a digital ballpark exists, it\u2019s what it represents.<\/p>\n

Surreal Events invited me to a demo of their browser-based metaverse streaming service where I got hands-on with the platform via good old-fashioned keyboard and mouse.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m all-in on metaverse technology, but only because I\u2019m willing to strip away all the dumb crap surrounding the idea and view it for its potential.<\/p>\n

The first problem most people have with the metaverse is virtual reality. And it was immediately clear that Surreal\u2019s technology solves that problem.<\/p>\n

I love VR. I could spend half an hour grinning at the 3D grid you exist in while a SteamVR experience loads. I\u2019ve reviewed dozens of VR games and experiences and I currently own five different headsets.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I was shocked to experience VR sickness for the first time a couple years ago. I figured you were either among the small percentage of people who get sick in VR or you weren\u2019t. But, as it turns out, everyone can get VR sickness.<\/p>\n

That alone makes it a crappy platform for anything that\u2019s supposed to have wide appeal. If playing Candy Crush or Farmville made a significant portion of the population vomit at random intervals, Facebook<\/a>\/Meta might not be the technology juggernaut it is today.<\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is that Meta, Microsoft, and a dozen other companies are trying to position the metaverse as a place where business happens.<\/p>\n

And that means there\u2019s a zero-percent chance that the metaverse will succeed in a VR-only format. Luckily, it doesn\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n

Instead, just like you can still use Zoom even if you don\u2019t have a webcam, you\u2019ll almost certainly be able to experience most of what the metaverse has to offer without dipping a single toe into virtual reality.<\/p>\n

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