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The mention of Decentraland in this article reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q

The comment one viewer seems to sum it up:

They made a virtual world so boring that you can't even find weird perverts in it.

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Whomsoever wins the furries will win the metaverse.

(But also, the furries are about the only people who _want_ a metaverse, as far as I can see. I'm fairly certain this is why Second Life still clings on stubbornly.)

Furries are the canaries of metaverses. As long as they are present, you can be sure corporates and HR haven't touched this world with their fingers of death

To be fair, furries are kinda the baseline of what you want to distinguish "the metaverse" from the real world. I can have meetings from home just as easily in the real world with a webcam and a Zoom call. The metaverse doesn't enhance that if all I'm doing is placing a 3D model that looks like me on a map and look at other 3D models of other people. (Plus, arguably strapping a VR brick to your face probably means it's worse than that Zoom call for physical health reasons.)

Otoh the premise of "you can use a furry avatar to represent yourself" isn't one that appeals to me, but it does show that the people making it are thinking of "how can we make this different from the real world" instead of the lazy "let's move this real world thing to digital and make it as boring as reality can be".

Oh, sure, but I suspect that furries (and a couple of other even smaller niche groups) are actually the _only_ obvious users for a full-immersion 'metaverse'-y thing (as opposed to games). As you say, no-one wants to role-play being in an office with a VR headset.

Weeb crowds are active in VR as well.

There's already a place for weird pervs and that's vr chat where there's no corporate overlords desperately trying to sanitize any weirdness out of their product.

Speaking of weird perverts, at least you can smoke in the Decentraland theater.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnpofBtijF8

Thanks for sharing that, interesting video!

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