The Device is the Boring Bit

The Apple Vision Pro is now on sale. People are getting their hands on them, and sharing their opinions. People who haven't got their hands on them are sharing their opinions. There are a lot of opinions flying around.

First thing - sure, I'm interested in the headset, and the device actually getting in 'normal' people's hands (or on their faces) is this week's news; I'm not going to buy one, because it's ridiculously expensive and if I had that sort of money to throw around, I probably wouldn't be driving a car that's approaching either its 18th birthday or its last trip to the scrapyard and has done the equivalent milage of 5 times around the circumference of the earth.


But what I'm really interested in is the Vision platform; the bits in the software that are going to be the same when the next headset device is launched. And once there are a bunch of different ‘Vision’ devices - where they will fit, in the spaces in people's lives.

Some Threads on Threads

General observations on trying out a new social networking site…

Unordered S2E3: Things can only get better

Another grab-bag of ‘things that caught my attention’.

The Metaverse is an Elephant

One reason the Metaverse is doomed is because of the idea that it will straddle all of the different computing platforms; too many conflicting business interests will make this impossible to execute.

One reason the Metaverse will succeed is because of the idea that when something, sooner or later, straddle all of the computing platforms, it will deliver something incredibly useful.

The Metaverse does not exist

Although I'm still excited about what I think the metaverse will be, I've also been getting disillusioned by what lots of people seem to be saying the metaverse is.

How might 'Metaverse Identities' work- and what's in it for Meta?

If “moving seamlessly between virtual spaces” is a key feature of the metaverse, how might that actually work with virtual identities on a decentralised platform? (And why would Mark Zuckeberg, who holds a bigger centralised database of virtual identities than anyone, want that to happen?)

Lego, Epic Games and the building blocks of the metaverse...

I've been keeping an eye on 'metaverse news' - lots of which I tend to dismiss as being a simple misuse of the buzzword, but something last week caught my eye - an announcement of a partnership between Epic Games and Lego to 'build a place for kids to play in the metaverse'.

Metaverse Podcast & Report

I mentioned in my last post that I had been working on a report & series of podcasts around the topic of the metaverse- well, I'm proud that I can now share the first episode of the podcast series - which just so happens to be the one in which I'm the guest/interviewee.

Metaverse 1: A New Rorschach Test

The Metaverse is here...

Well, not here. Not the actual metaverse, in the actual world. But in the strange parallel universe of the 'media/marketing industry', its definitely here. And its been here since before Facebook became 'Meta'.