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The metaverse is a platform. ChatGPT is a product.

Platforms that aren't products for end users are nerdy, especially ones that don't even exist yet.

You aren't going to find an old person start talking to you about a new functions Microsoft added to the Windows SDK, but you could hear them talk about a new feature in a Windows app they use.

>It just looks like a crappy Wii edition of Second Life

The metaverse doesn't exist yet. Someone could make a product like that for the metaverse, but that is just one product. Not all products will look the same, and not all product will boolean heavy into being like second life.



The problem is that Meta did make a product like second life. It's called horizon worlds, and by all accounts it's a pretty awful experience.

They'd almost have been better off not bothering to make it.


This made me understand the metaverse less than I did before. There’s zero chance of a typical person knowing what this is supposed to be.




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