Day 1 in the Metaverse
I purchased an Oculus Quest 2 to assess the viability of the Metaverse for collaboration.
My first VR Headset experience was the Pixel 2 with VR goggles. My 2nd experience was via a Playstation 4 VR headset a few years later. So I have to say from a hardware perspective, the Facebook Oculus Quest 2 has shown the hardware maturity of VR headsets. But this isn’t a CTO Short about the hardware. It’s about the viability of Oculus for B2B Metaverse experience.
In short, it’s not promising. The biggest challenge is the network effect. Or the lack of network effect. I did the first thing I believe business users would. I searched for the existing collaboration tools I use in my everyday business. None of which were present in the app store.
After one day, the Meta Metaverse experience is all about my Facebook connections, which have little to no overlap with my professional network. And I’m extremely unwilling to give Facebook (Meta) access to those relationships.
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