Los directores ejecutivos de Silicon Valley no están impresionados por el metaverso actual

• Los ejecutivos de Silicon Valley creen que el metaverso carece de calidad y experiencia.
• Algunos expertos en criptografía creen que el mundo aún tiene que definir claramente el metaverso.

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Mientras hablaba en una reciente Wall Street 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.

Si bien muchos creen que los juegos basados en el metaverso competirán con los juegos tradicionales en los próximos años, Spener piensa lo contrario. El jefe de juegos de Microsoft cree que los proyectos de metaverso no tienen la calidad suficiente para representar una amenaza, y agregó que el espacio de juegos tiene una ventaja competitiva sobre el metaverso con su contenido atractivo.

Spencer no escatimó palabras cuando comparó la mayoría de las experiencias actuales del metaverso con las reuniones en salas de realidad virtual. Él dijo,

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.”

Desde 2021, Meta ha realizado importantes inversiones en la nueva industria y ha invertido al menos $15 millones en Reality Labs, el brazo de la empresa centrado en la tecnología de realidad virtual y aumentada.

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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