The Real Metaverse
I’m scrolling through quarterly earnings calls from Meta, Apple, Gartner reports, earnings projections. The numbers are real. The faith is touching. The outcome is entirely predictable to anyone who paid attention twenty years ago.
Then a headline catches: “Apple Vision Pro shifts focus from metaverse to spatial computing.” Which is a delicate way of saying nobody’s buying the dream, so we’re pivoting to something that sounds new while meaning the same old thing—a better computer.