"Just as every company a few decades ago created a webpage, and then at some point every company created a Facebook page, I think we’re approaching the point where every company will have a real-time live 3D presence, through partnerships with game companies ..."
#TimSweeney, 2020
I'm sure anyone reading this understand the crucial difference between a web page and a FarceBook page. I wonder if Sweeney does?
It's potentially better for his business if he doesn't...
That quote from Tim Sweeney was presented in one of the opening chapters of a long but entertaining web video called 'The Future is a Dead Mall':
https://piped.video/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q
Produced by Folding Ideas, it's a deconstruction of the VR hype cycle though the lens of "Metaverse" rhetoric. As a specific example, a crypto pump'n'dumper's online utopia called Decentraland.
More of this kind of video on #PeerTube please!
Chapter 5 of 'The Future is a Dead Mall', entitled 'A Child's Vision of Governance', is an insightful takedown of some of the failure models of DAOs: