Die CEOs des Silicon Valley sind von der gegenwärtigen Metaverse nicht beeindruckt

• Führungskräfte aus dem Silicon Valley glauben, dass es dem Metaverse an Qualität und Erfahrung mangelt.
• Einige Krypto-Experten glauben, dass die Welt das Metaverse noch klar definieren muss.

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Beim Sprechen bei einem kürzlich Wallstreet Journal event, Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel explained that they were not huge fans of the metaverse in its current state. Microsoft’s Spencer tagged the budding virtual world a “poorly built video game,” slamming projects in the sector for poor-quality graphics and interfaces.

Während viele glauben, dass Metaverse-basierte Spiele in den kommenden Jahren mit traditionellen Spielen konkurrieren werden, denkt Spener anders. Der Gaming-Chef von Microsoft glaubt, dass Metaverse-Projekte nicht qualitativ genug sind, um eine Bedrohung darzustellen, und fügt hinzu, dass der Gaming-Bereich mit seinen ansprechenden Inhalten einen Wettbewerbsvorteil gegenüber dem Metaverse hat.

Spencer sparte keine Worte, als er die meisten aktuellen Metaverse-Erfahrungen mit Meetings in Virtual-Reality-Räumen verglich. Er sagte,

Video game creators have an amazing ability to build compelling worlds that we want to go spend time in. […] For me, building a metaverse that looks like a meeting room… I just find that’s not where I want to spend most of my time.

Spiegel argued that the present renditions of the metaverse are pretty basic, noting that they cannot retain his attention. He compared the current experience of the virtual world to “living inside a computer.”

Metaverse projects mostly incorporate virtual reality hardware into their platforms. Spiegel mocked such trends, noting that Snap is more concerned with minimizing the hardware and delivering the experience to the real world via augmented reality (AR).

Apple senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Greg Joswiak, described the metaverse as “a word I’ll never use.” Apple is another firm that is heavily focused on AR over VR.

Additionally, Disney CEO Bob Chapek said the entertainment brand thinks the metaverse is a broad term, adding that “for us, it’s next-generation storytelling.”

The comments by the Silicon Valley CEOs come days after a Meta investor, Brad Gerstner, the CEO of Altimeter Capital, wrote a public letter slamming Mark Zuckerberg for his investments in the metaverse. Brad claimed Meta had lost investors’ confidence and advised the company to invest in artificial intelligence and reduce its workforce.

Meta CEO Zuckerberg has been a firm believer in the possibilities of the metaverse. The social media guru announced a shift in Facebook’s (now Meta) priorities, including a name change. Zuckerberg called the metaverse “a next chapter for the internet.”

Seit 2021 hat Meta erhebliche Investitionen in die neue Branche getätigt und mindestens $15 Millionen in Reality Labs investiert, den Zweig des Unternehmens, der sich auf Virtual- und Augmented-Reality-Technologie konzentriert.

However, Meta is yet to get promising results for all its metaverse investments. The company’s central virtual platform, Horizon Worlds, has seen its monthly active users fall roughly 50% short of its target for 2022. Report claim that some Horizon Worlds staff refused to use the platform due to its playability concerns.

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