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If the threshold for the headsets to become comfortable in mainstream conditions is 10-15 years away, their metaverse will fail.


And yet phones started off big, bulky and with no features and now everyone has a smartphone in their pocket.


I'm not saying that it's impossible. At some point we will reach the "good enough" threshold, that's quite obvious.

However your comment completely missed my point.

The first mobile phone was made in 1973, 34 years before the iPhone. The first commercially available mobile phone came out in 1983, 24 years before the iPhone.

If Zuckerberg bets Meta on the Metaverse, he better be prepared to keep investing with possibly low or no returns for 20+ years.

And VR is a much harder problem.




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