When Zuck was a only in high school, there were a host of different "Metaverse" type projects being birn, some of which are still around like Second life.
As early as the 2000s, in Second Life, you had virtual properties selling for millions of dollars, people getting legally married to partners they met in Second Life. You had a dozens of cities you could walk around in with real shops that you can buy skins, pets, properties, home designs, boats and cars. There was a design suit that allowed you to program and design almost anything you want. By contrast Decentraland has only one city with a few shops. People tried to open casinos in SL but it was prohibited. But second Life was successful with a booming virtual economy.
So there will a ton of potential for Meta to pick up where they left off. But my fear is that it won't be nearly as successful as what he may have in mind. He believes that making it VR based and AR integrated is the game changer. It certainly is, along with the increased computing power and mobile computing. One complaint that I'm hearing in Twitter Voice chat is that people below 30 won't want to be in the same space with boomers and the mere possibility of them joining the same space makes any virtual project from FACEBOOK extremely unattractive. It's really interesting. I'm Xennial and half of my friends are Boomers the other half are Millennials... I can't relate...
Second Life Real Estate Barrons
Realtor makes $1 million in Second Life: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/second-life-realtor-makes-1-million/1100-6162315/
15 years married in Second Life
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