For some of its most fervent believers, this is enough to claim it will replace the Internet entirely. So instead of logging in to those apps individually, you’d log in to just one-the metaverse-and access them all from there. The basic concept is of a vast, persistent, shared virtual space, one where all the Internet services and platforms we’re already familiar with-social media, shopping, video games, virtual/augmented-reality applications, chatrooms, you name it-come together and are accessible through a unified über-platform or interface.
It’s hard to pin anyone down into giving a firm and succinct explanation of what, by its nature, is a nebulous idea. If you’ve heard the term metaverse but are still not quite sure what it means, don’t worry: You’re not alone. I find myself wondering how that’s really working out for him, and if he knows what the kids are actually doing with the toys he’s given them. A headset I could afford only because it’s been subsidized by Facebook advertising money, because Mark Zuckerberg wants every single one of us assimilated into his virtual world: a singular, rosy-cheeked, Pixar-movie vision of the metaverse that’s a far cry from VRChat.
But there’s no fighting through the dance floor to find the exit just two button presses and I’m out, sitting back in my office at home, gazing at the colorful interface of VRChat-a platform that hosts a veritable smorgasbord of interconnected virtual worlds-before gently taking the hot plastic weight of a VR headset off my head. I laugh to myself, nodding with approval but feeling like I’ve outstayed my welcome, self-conscious that I look like that one old guy you see at every rave. For a nanosecond, the room is bright, and everyone looks like they’re encased in transparent plastic.
Walls visibly pulse to the bass line, and everyone in the club’s outfit changes, colors strobing with the music.
Then the music changes, the DJ dropping a subwoofer-rattling slice of tech-step drum and bass, and the whole room flips. The Vacheron Constantin 222 Is a Damn Sexy Watch.
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