Why does Mark Zuckerberg still believe in the Metaverse?

With Facebook’s shares dropping more than 70 per cent and the platform crumbling, you’d think that CEO Mark Zuckerberg would give up and go back to business as usual. But despite that, he still believes in the Metaverse and wants it to happen. He genuinely thinks that human beings want to leave miserable reality behind them and step into the fantasy world of his creation.

But why is this? Why does his vision remain intact, despite the troubles his companies are currently experiencing?

Eventually, The Technology Will Work

Right now, Metaverse graphics are poor. That’s because the software has to render the environment in real time. Unlike regular games, there’s no “loading” in the Metaverse, so textures and objects must be communicated in real-time over the internet.

This state of affairs won’t always apply. As technology improves over the next decade, graphics will start to look increasingly life-like. Avatars will be more realistic, and environments will become more detailed. The visual appeal of the game won’t always be so desperately disappointing.

People Will Get Used To It

It took around ten years for people to get used to the concept of a social network. The first began popping up online in the late 1990s. However, it wasn’t until around 2008 that social networking actually became mainstream.

Zuckerberg is betting on something similar to the Metaverse. Such concepts have only been around for a couple of years. Of course, they’re not going to work perfectly just yet. That’s going to take a significant amount of time. People haven’t gotten used to it yet, so they’re not sure what to expect or what they can get out of it. But in the future, things will change, or so the reasoning goes.

Killer Features Aren’t Available Yet

The Metaverse is still very much in its infancy. As far as Zuckerberg is concerned, what’s out there at the moment is just a showpiece. It’s nowhere near close to the platform’s potential.

Big features, such as full immersion virtual reality, simply aren’t available yet. It’s going to take time for them to arrive.

We also don’t have much of an economic backbone to these systems yet. Trades are quite basic, and crypto integration is yet to happen at scale.

What’s more, technologies, such as Neurolink, still aren’t up and running. You can’t just plug yourself into these realms and get experiences as if they were real life. And that’s a pity.

You Will Be Able To Work There In The Future

Lastly, and perhaps the biggest reason Zuckerberg still believes in the Metaverse, is that you’ll be able to work there in the future. People will transact with each other in virtual worlds instead of through conventional real-world channels. Eventually, the platform will feel as realistic as the Avatar movies. There won’t be such an obvious separation between the simulated world, and the real thing.

So that’s where we’re at right now, and why Zuckerberg and his wife Chan keep plodding along with this idea. They genuinely believe that it will succeed in the long run.

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