People hate zuckerberg and facebook.
Then again, instagram is facebook and so is whatsapp and those apps are widly popular. Basically completely ubiquitous these days.
So will that happen with meta? I've never used a VR chat room as I'm not a deranged faggot. Do they have appeal to zoomers and younger?
Meta itself is a direct copy of https://decentraland.org/. I'm not sure how popular that is though but I remember seeing second life and thinking "who the fuck would even consider wasting their time with this" and then seeing how popular it was. Roblox is another virtual social network world that is wildly popular too. And I can see how many people these days would want to escape into a virtual world.
I still think VR will be no more than a fad with respect to it being a mainstream product. I don't really have any argument behind it other than that's just what I think. I'm not sure I change my mind on that until I see 5 year olds with VR on their head at close to the same level they use phones and tablets today.
The tech has been lagging for VR stil but it's catching up. Many people get motion sick from it though. Maybe they'll be able to fix that too or kids, who've been on it their whole lives, will simply adapt / evolve to accept it.
I can seriously see parents buying this for their kids to shut them up. The same way they do with phones and ipads.
Like with Bitcoin and electric cars, if it's the future for more than a decade, it's not the future.