Why you never heard the words “metaverse” or “VR” at WWDC23.

Metaverse market value predictions
McKinsey: $5 trillion
Citi: $13 trillion

Reality:
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/metaverse-zuckerberg-pr-hype/

https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5

via @FrankPasquale

Lessons From the Catastrophic Failure of the Metaverse

Did the “creative class” learn anything from buying into a product that was obviously destined to flop?

The Nation

@counternotions @FrankPasquale and yet ignorant writers have been dumping on Mastodon with wild abandon.

The free copy of Blue Team Diaries I won in a contest run by @SecureOwl through this network is worth almost 5% of all the income every generated by the Metaverse.

Real profit!