He's dead right about the meta verse but dead wrong about VR. VR is much more social than playing fortnite with or without a mic or any other online game. In VR you can tell there is another human in multi-player games and not just an NPC.
I like VR but it is also rather limiting. Others around you cant really share in the experience, not unless you got a super rig of a PC that can support multiple HMD. Something like this: https://www.bing.com/videos...
How many people are happy to sit there and watch their friend/partner play a video game anyway? As far as online multiplayer VR is far more social than flat games.
The trouble is, the trade-off is comfort, weight, graphics and performance.
I agree with Ken on metaverse, but VR headsets are gaining in popularity and the tech is moving forward at pace. Ultimately, it his thoughts on this don't really matter more than anyone else's - many people don't even get traditional gaming, but the industry still booms.
The antisocial angle is a non-starter for a few reasons and it's certainly not true in my household.
"Ascent’s goal is to develop software and products for robotics to better interact with the real world." so we may be getting surrogates soon is what you're telling me.....?
VR is the future to me. Once we've gotten it to the level of traditional gaming in terms of visuals and we can translate third person camera camera controls to VR then that's complete and total immersion.
Yes, my bro-in-law gets it. They've made massive strides to understand and combat that, though, and I'm looking forward to putting a PSVR2 on his face after what we've learned on that front so far.
In the metaverse, people will be able to do whatever they want without real world consequences - that will be the appeal. Lie GTA to the nth degree.)
People were already losing themselves in MMORPGs years ago - because for them it was preferable to real life. I think the Metaverse will be the same - only far more enticing - and addictive.
Yes! Facebook is leading the charge and they have a grand scheme to do exactly what you stated. Behind the veil of what's cool and interesting about VR is a more dark engineered plan for control
I always thought PlayStation home was way ahead of it's time and a good view of what the metaverse would eventually become. Wasn't he still running Sony when that came out?
Even before that we had Second Life. Both were super primitive compared to what we're going to see with the metaverse. Roblox is probably the closest to what we'll be seeing.
I work in tech and I don't understand the point of the metaverse. I love VR but this integration of VR and Augmented reality and a weird "Web 3.0" shift doesn't feel like a natural progression to me, more like an attempt by big tech to push its vision on everyone. I early adopted VR and Gaming and Tech in general but I'm very much on the out when it comes to this move.
VR /AR here to stay and are evolving exponentially (particularly nor being married to mega powerful hardware), Metaverse is a dippy trend TAG for the same shit, but rebranded to spoonfeed mainstream consumers to be something bigger than VR (engulfing it, because you know everything bigger is better and stuff).Yeah and drop blockchain in there... ugh so lame).
Metaverse will be huge when the technology catches up. For now it's on the sidelines and will remain there probably for a few years. All the big companies are already in on it as well as mainstream culture. It's only going to get bigger
Whether people on n4g support it or not it's already generating cash
"Ken Kutaragi Doesn't See The Point in the Metaverse"....
Lot's of people don't see the point of Snap Chat, Tik Tok, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter too but there is literally 100's of millions that do.
Heck my mom and dad don't see the point in streaming movies and TV either nevermind playing what they call "pointless" video games. Maybe we should have an article on that.
It's not Sony saying it. It's Ken who no longer works at Sony. It's like Phil Harrison saying something. Who cares. He doesn't work there to know.
Ken is a great engineer. But a lot of social games with millions of players would disagree with him.
VR has so much potential of allowing people to experience things they may never have a chance to from a first person view. He says it's isolating without thinking that you can experience something like being on Mars with other VR users. Take the actual video and data from probes on the planet, use an AI algorithm, and recreate Mars. He forgets you can even train individuals before they ever step on the real planet.
His words are irrelevant as much as Mark Cerny made him irrelevant at PlayStation. Instead of building PlayStation, he should have told people to go outside. But that's not what he did. Gamers become those characters they play. Now, he's saying don't take it to the next level? Doesn't make sense.
These things are nice to add to the spectrum, but they wont be replacing anything. Not until you can create an experience that doesnt feel like "VR" but actual life. As in the 5 senses feel like you're actually IN the game world, rather than being hooked up to a device.
Ken is a visionary, always has been and in this case I completely agree. the "metaverse" is trash. Im not a fan of VR and really just see it as a gimmick
Not without adoption, having played games since the NES I can tell you theres a bunch of us that will age out/opt out REAL fast if VR becomes the norm. Its really not what the majority wants
VR is going to appeal deeply to a small subset of people but be a novelty for most until the tech advanced much much further to the point that the headsets are less bulky and mostly wire free.
Metaverse is nothing new it's been around for a few years but leave it to Zuckerberg to make it a big deal. VR also been around in different forms for many yrs. But the last few yrs it's really taken on its true form and will only get better. Ken definitely should not write VR off. but yeah metaverse isn't going to break anything. but if it ever should you better believe it's only because VR made it happen.
I get his sentiment, the metaverse is unhealthy and rather backwards. Vr headsets are a bit cumbersome but I do only play for a short period at a time, can't wait for psvr 2, I see it as a fun suppliment to 2d gaming not a replacment.
Zuckerbergs Metaverse is the most pathetic thing I've ever seen in human existence... Its literally pathetic. Only low iq thinkers would trade reality for Zuckerbergs vision of humanity. He's making billions off selling your life and your time.
He's dead right about the meta verse but dead wrong about VR. VR is much more social than playing fortnite with or without a mic or any other online game. In VR you can tell there is another human in multi-player games and not just an NPC.
"Ascent’s goal is to develop software and products for robotics to better interact with the real world." so we may be getting surrogates soon is what you're telling me.....?
VR is the future to me. Once we've gotten it to the level of traditional gaming in terms of visuals and we can translate third person camera camera controls to VR then that's complete and total immersion.
In the metaverse, people will be able to do whatever they want without real world consequences - that will be the appeal. Lie GTA to the nth degree.)
People were already losing themselves in MMORPGs years ago - because for them it was preferable to real life. I think the Metaverse will be the same - only far more enticing - and addictive.
Nor do I. It's stupid, and an attempt for our technocracy to exert more control over the populace than they already do.