I Spent 24 Hours Trapped in the Metaverse | WSJ

Everyone is blabbing about the metaverse. But what does this future digital world look like?

WSJ’s Joanna Stern checked into a hotel and strapped on the Meta Quest 2 virtual-reality headset for the day. She went to work meetings with Spatial and Horizon Worlds, hung out with new avatar friends in AltspaceVR and even exercised while playing games.

0:00 The setup
1:48 Games and AltspaceVR
3:30 Meditation apps, reading and exercising
4:47 Taking meetings
6:35 What’s next for the metaverse?

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[chi_seminavento]

It literally looks like something that will make everyone more sad and lonely.

[selfwilliam]

This is by far the most inspiring thing ive ever seen...im inspired to throw away every electronic i own and run to live in the forest

[Master-ilsk]

1990: dont sit too close to the TV its bad for your eyes
2021:

[SANT]

The reactions to meta verse have reinforced my faith in humanity

[agirlhasnoname]

I’ll never understand this obsession of finding a new world for humans to escape to instead of just collectively working to fix the one we already have.

[smith]

Ever since 2020 the world has felt like a movie or one long black mirror episode

[aripmkboiii]

The world has literally started feeling like a sci-fi movie.

[morten]

Metaverse: Bringing people together towards isolation

[danielcai]

I don't want to be trapped in Facebookland. I just want to hang out with my friends in the real world and chill.

[CarltonSmith]

I find it hilarious that the first thing she did was isolate herself when this is being marketed as a way to be closer with each other.

[fencserx]

I’m really proud of most of humanity for taking one look at this and immediately saying “How about no”

[YumiYume]

Imagine a company like Meta pitching this as "new" when I've been in social VR (VRChat and NeosVR) for over 3, 000 hours since Jan 2019. We've had avatars with legs all that time. And I've had fully tracked legs for dancing since 2020. Wouldn't ever spend 24 hours in VR or work or sleep in it, but I regularly go up to 7-8 hours in VR with friends who can't meet irl because we're all over the world.

[ziksarthi]

this is so depressing no matter how good it sounds

[blongth]

50 years from now kids will look back at this video and say " why are these people wearing a headset. Why can't they just plug the wire into their skull." Lol

[battletrolllikesminecraft]

This suddenly makes me want to go outside despite me being a introvert.

[thestickiestman]

Even as a person who doesn't have any proper friends, I will NEVER ever give myself into the Metaverse. I would rather be a social outcast and have a good life rather than get my data stolen whilst the dopamine in my brain gets sucked out like a vacuum

[Libdump]

It’s fascinating how easily people are getting sucked into this Digital Dark age of horror.

[al_alemania]

I'm glad that everyone else is also feeling off put with this man

[Dweepikerrr]

As a good vr player, having enough battery for 24 hours is a dream

[meamme]

no matter how well you put the metaverse its always gonna be creepy and depressing