David Gerard

looking forward to the world logging in to Second Life next year

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2022-02-07-gartner-predicts-25-percent-of-people-will-spend-at-least-one-hour-per-day-in-the-metaverse-by-2026

Dec 12 at 4:29pmWeb
Show threadEspaña BizarraDec 12
@davidgerard No, no, that's too 20 years ago. Now it's Third Life.
Show threadDianeDec 12

@davidgerard

I was shocked at how bad Facebook's virtual world was compared to even second life in the 2010's.

also according to random website's I could search up a day or two ago that listed a publication date, right now in 2025, Facebook's Horizion worlds has about 200k monthly active users, while second life has 600k.

Show threadMaria “indigoviolet” IvyDec 12
@alienghic @davidgerard They can’t even match VRchat. If you have infinite money and can’t even MATCH VRchat, just give up
Show threadPeter BurkaDec 12
@davidgerard I wonder what percentage of Gartner prophecies come true?
Show threadDavid GerardDec 12
@pburka science fiction story where 100% of Gartner prophecies come true
Show threadDavid Fleetwood - RG AdminDec 12
@davidgerard @pburka omg lol I love this! I mean I would hate that timeline, but the concept is hilarious.
Show threadChucklesDec 12
@davidgerard @pburka ... in the form we deserve
Show threadThe Penguin of EvilDec 12
@davidgerard @pburka that would require serious quantities of weed to read
Show threadEric LawtonDec 12

@davidgerard

The metaverse is the virtual universe constructed by humanity in top of the physical: communities, countries, corporations, …

The open Internet is a meta-metaverse, built on top of, and about, those institutions

Second Life is a meta³verse and Meta's walled city is another: a corporate, colonial, enshittified meta³verse.

Show threadgam3Dec 12
@davidgerard And it only cost something like 70 billion dollars. And I don't believe this. That would be nearly 50% of internet users.
Show threadOrb 2069Dec 12
@davidgerard VR Georg, who sleeps in his headset is an outlier and should not have been counted.
Show threadNick AppleyardDec 12
@davidgerard
Come on David be fair.
That prediction was made three whole years ago. Nobody can be expected to follow technical or social trends that far into the future.
Show threadLuna LacteaDec 12
@davidgerard Maybe I should get on FluffMUCK.
Show threadZimmieDec 12
@davidgerard Gartner analysts are much like illusionists, but instead of showing you illusions, they show you things they pulled out of … well, it’s right in the first four letters of their job title.
Show threadJonathan HendryDec 12

@davidgerard

Oh! I didn”t realize “the metaverse” was a euphemism for “on the toilet and using the internet on my phone”

“Go away Ma I’m on the Metaverse!”

Show threadAndréDec 12
@davidgerard just wail till visual appealing ai girlfriends will arrive 😘
Show threadtlarivDec 13
@davidgerard
I shot a man in Second Life just to watch him die
Show threadWillowDec 13
@davidgerard
"Buying digital land..."
Lovely, yes, what if... you can't buy a home, but you can spend money on a purely fake space purely to profit billionaires? It's like real estate, except you own it even less and it doesn't actually exist. The American Dream.