Gli amministratori delegati della Silicon Valley non sono impressionati dall'attuale Metaverso

• I dirigenti della Silicon Valley ritengono che il metaverso manchi di qualità ed esperienza.
• Alcuni esperti di criptovalute ritengono che il mondo debba ancora definire chiaramente il metaverso.

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Mentre parlo a un recente giornale di Wall Street 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.

Mentre molti credono che i giochi basati sul metaverso competeranno con i giochi tradizionali nei prossimi anni, Spener la pensa diversamente. Il capo del gioco Microsoft ritiene che i progetti del metaverso non siano di qualità sufficiente per rappresentare una minaccia, aggiungendo che lo spazio di gioco ha un vantaggio competitivo rispetto al metaverso con i suoi contenuti accattivanti.

Spencer non ha risparmiato parole quando ha confrontato la maggior parte delle attuali esperienze del metaverso con le riunioni nella stanza della realtà virtuale. Egli ha detto:

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.”

Dal 2021, Meta ha effettuato investimenti significativi nel nuovo settore e ha investito almeno $15 milioni su Reality Labs, il braccio dell'azienda focalizzato sulla tecnologia della realtà virtuale e aumentata.

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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