The industrial metaworld will beat the consumer one
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Oh my god, this shit again? I still remember when Google fucking Glass was supposed to bring forth the 18th Industrial Revolution or whatever and completely change how everyone worked. Again. All it did was waste a few billion and made a bunch of turbonerds look like extras from a really bad 70s sci-fi.
The only device I know of that has done this is the Microsoft one. Everyone else wants a piece of that pie.
After Glass completely failed to attract consumer interest beyond a few bugmen because all it could do was look ridiculous, show you ads, and record video 30s at a time, they tried to repackage it for industry. Noone was interested so it was just a little last whimper before it went to the Google Graveyard.
These things keep popping up every decade or so. I remember seeing VR headsets in the 1990s and hearing people talk about how they would "revolutionize work" by allowing every white collar drone to lock themselves into a home bugpod for 8 hours and work like the Lawnmower one. Then it all quietly went away because it was shit, and come on, noone's getting a sci-fi coffin installed at home. At this rate I expect those stupid shitty 3D TVs to try to make a comeback in a few years again, too.
I really can't see how anyone older than 25 keeps taking these "futurists" and "technologists" seriously. They keep coming up with the exact same ideas decade after decade, and it never catches on because these people are all severely autistic and don't understand how normal people operate. Even those voice assistants like Siri and Alexa and Cortana - that's an ancient sci-fi trope too and we were all supposed to be using them everyday by like 1975. Now they're actually somewhat common because other than Alexa they're bundled with other consumer electronics, and I have still never in my life seen anyone use any of them outside an ad, even though I work for a company full of awkward nerds with money to spend.
I'd be more worried about the energy crisis that's deindustrializing several "first world" countries than some holographic UI out of Dead Space.