Listen: I Talk Second Life, The Metaverse, and the Metaverse's Killer App on CBC Radio's "Sparks"

Click here to listen and read the article summary, my chat with Nora of "Sparks", a tech show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (basically the NPR/PBS of Canada) about Second Life and the Metaverse. Some of my answers seem a bit stumbly to me (I blame my morning coffee for not kicking in soon enough), but it was fun to delve into some areas I haven't discussed as much before. For instance:

The looming question as to whether the Metaverse has a "killer app", My take:

My answer is essentially that the Metaverse is mainly a killer app for people who already enjoy 3D immersive experiences. (Roughly 20-25% of the population, to judge by who plays in 3D game worlds now.) For everyone else, they may use the Metaverse on occasion for very specific projects (therapy, prototyping their new living room, etc.), but it's hard for me to see them shifting most of their attention into a virtual environment.

Agree/disagree?

Comments

[irihapeti]

the killer metaverse app will be the three (potentially multi)-dimensional spreadsheet. Able to pivot data and its graphical representation in more than two dimensions

[Luther Weymann]

@irihapeti
Oh! oh oh...me thinking that through... OMG the things I could have done in business with that is mind-blowing. I'm retired now, but can I come back in time for that to be fully available to me? Killer, killer metaverse app.

[Tholan Nohkan]

Nice interview on Spark.

I want the metaverse to be easy and have high realism. Like telling an Ai how you want your new region to be terraformed and then landscaped. And then telling the Ai, you wish to add a log cabin etc. Elon's Open-Ai company already does the with VQGAN-Clip to generate 2d art based on any text you give it. I use it at https://creator.nightcafe.studio
I imagine they might be doing the same thing for Ai to write computer code. So maybe everything is falling into place for a metaverse that builds itself for you.