Will the Unreal Engine 5 Realize the Metaverse’s Potential?

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3 points·rbanffy··5 comments

Minecraft is still the best and most successful example of the metaverse. It occurred to me, will people really want to move around for these experiences or sit and use keyboard / mouse? VR can get really disorienting, especially when coming out, but also sometimes within, ymmv

I think augmented reality is far more interesting than virtual reality and smart glasses will common in the next 10ish years

Grand Theft Auto V (and soon VI) the most definitely form of metaverse.

The “problem” is that Rockstar Games is based out of Edimburgh and New York. So they don’t have their ranks full of people who want to be thought leaders like everybody in the Valley.

So they will never come up with words like Metaverse like Zuck and you will never see Rockstar CEO becoming a cult leader like Musk.

Isn't this Meta's biggest problem that it's Metaverse can't shine using graphics from the 21st century, because it needs to run on cheap VR headsets. You don't have a big market if a $1000 graphics card with 300W TDP is needed to run your stuff.

Cellphones from 10+ years ago were pretty limited, Meta is making a long term play by focussing on V/M/XR and devices

I am always amazed at the ability of Unreal Engine to animate humanoid characters.

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