why the metaverse won't happen

VR, AR, MR, XR are just re-workings of the same concept...

I wrote an op-ed in The Guardian today: "Techies think we’re on the cusp of a virtual world called ‘the metaverse’. I’m skeptical"

One struggle in sitting down to prove out my position that the metaverse will not happen is the difficulty everyone has defining it. As I say in the piece, we resort to science fiction metaphors: Neuromancer, The Matrix, Snow…