Hey, the Zucc looks slightly less creepy as a VR puppet in that propaganda clip. I guess that's something.
For real, though. All of the marketing is "it's coming, it will be everywhere" which makes it sound roughly as appealing and positive as Covid. What is supposed to be the upside to the proles that are being pressured to take this all in? No matter what I read about it, it reads like a threat more than a promise.
It's a vaporware tech bubble like 3D TVs, AR, ARGs, or the last several VR hype cycles. We used to have these more often. Back in the early 2010s, every stupid tech idea was a "revolution" with its own pile of proponents and grifters. But it's been a hot minute, so I've forgotten all the better examples.
As far as bubbles go, I think it'll be a particularly large one, perhaps so large it does funny things in the real world. It's also kind of structurally interesting, if you're a nerd about the anatomy of bad ideas. But definitely just another piece of vaporware in the end.
I remember when Google Glass was supposed to be everywhere and everyone would have them and need them to function in the AR world that would be compulsory around, oh, some years ago.
Then people got tired of the glassholes being obnoxious and creeping on strangers.
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There's a lot of social capital that :melon-musk: has left to burn through. If he didn't have such cringe tweets as his new addiction, his reputation would likely be unassailable right now.
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I don't think ARGs are really a tech bubble. They happen sometimes and sometimes they don't. They're less trendy now, but still happen. Not really sure how you'd turn a massive profit off of them.