Meta-verse
 

How will this affect Amazon Prime?

Is this the next generation of the Internet? Thoughts

You are going to have to wear a TV on your nose :)

It won't.

Zero interest!

If possible, that’s more interest than I have. However, I don’t think it’s a good thing for the health of future generations. People need to spend less time tethered to electronic devices and more time outdoors getting healthy exercise.

I don’t even know what metaverse is. I’ve heard the term, of course. Can anyone explain this to me? I can’t be the only person who doesn’t know.

It is a place where you can spend real money on completely nonexistent items that apparently can only be seen on a computer screen, NOT for me.

within our lifetimes, probably zero influence. But, it is the next step forward in our expanding technology dominated future. It's pretty exciting, right now being driven by cryptos and NFTs.

Probably more collection of our habits, data, purchases etc.

simply put, I have a great piece of land with a water view i can sell you......

So, is that like watching stuff on Prime Video? Still fuzzy on the concept.

It just occurred to me I should probably Google it.

It seems like a pyramid scheme to me in that its not tied to anything tangible. It's shades of the dot.com bust in the '90s.

Like Bitcoin

You can't deny the viability of this stuff when you see all of the folks (young and old) already addicted to their smart phones. Think about it - If you spend a big majority of your free time looking at a small one dimensional color screen, why wouldn't you be excited about a system that immerses you in an "alternate universe" using artificial intelligence, great visuals, perfect sounds, etc. I think the human race is doomed unless someone figures out who is going to be the workers in the future. And believe me, that someone can't be Mark Zuckerberg!

It reminds me of an episode from Star Trek: The Next Generation where the crew was given these headsets that has a laser thing that pointed at their eyes. Pretty soon, everyone became addicted to it on the Starship Enterprise, as it immersed them in a fantasy world and gave them feelings of euphoria and other pleasurable sensations. It was a sinister plot by an alien race to subjugate those who might interfere with their nefarious plans. Very prescient episode, don't you think?.

Will I be anatomically correct?

My OPINION it is like too many things mass insanity. People who are insane truly think people who are not are crazy. Meta verse? People take REAL MONEY whatever that really is and buy BITCOIN that they will tell you is a real store of value-HUH. First of all no one is sure who created BITCOIN. It is either one person or a group of people.
If, it is one person he does not seem to exist-HUH. You can look up the value of bit coin.If, you want to spend it you do not know the rate of exchange till you try to spend it.

Now to the meta verse. Hold on to your sanity. People buy bit coin a non stable backed by nothing currency and then they buy stuff like land and even boats in an imaginary world, the meta verse. As far as the price of the land you will pay more for a land parcel next to some celebrity.

None of this is new. Research the famous ponzi scheme on Tulip bulbs roughly 300 years ago. Some made big money doing this. When sanity returned, people were left
with way over priced tulips that no one was left that was dumb enough to buy.

This is not new. Second Life has existed since 2003. You can buy bitcoin, which is not a actual physical thing but you pay real money for it. In fact, whenever you buy stock, you are not buying a physical actual thing. You can't just go into the Intel store and say "Yeah I want 20 intel processor chips, here's my stock certificate." You can't demand that the secretary at the Intel company give you her pen, just because you have stock in the company.

Meanwhile, there have existed online games that are "pay to play" for decades, where you own only your own creative content - but you don't own the code it's written in.

This forum, Talk of the Villages? You can only see it via the internet. It is a physically non-existent thing. And yet - the owners of it own it, and pay for the privilege.

And Bitcoin lost 1 trillion in the last few days, real money on a non-existent "money".

There is already a very famous game called Roblox that many of your younger grandchildren probably play and ask for Roblox gift certificates for gifts. They use these gift certificates to buy and trade things online interactively with their friends. They build and furnish home and buy cars and even pets. This is nothing new.

I thought this thread was about the new Spiderman movie...