Bluegrass Geek

That’s the nice thing about DuckDuckGo: you can do Google searches through it, without Google seeing that you were the one making the search & adding it to their collection of information about you.

So, imagine you had three main ways of interacting with the world:

1. Regular world stuff, including your phone and laptop/desktop PC.
2. Augemented Reality glasses, which lay information over the world as you walk around (directions, restaurant menus, movie listings at theaters, etc.)
3. Virtual Reality goggles, which let you shut out the real world and immerse yourself in a 3D generated environment.

The idea is that companies will mesh all three of these together into a "metaverse," so you can seamlessly switch between all those use cases. This might mean composing an email on your phone, then getting driving directions & traffic alerts on your AR glasses as you go in to work, then coming home and putting on your VR goggles to play an MMO or shooter.

And Facebook wants to have a hand in all three of those.

I seriously think AR will be revolutionary… but VR is going to remain a niche thing that very few people are interested in, and the "metaverse" is just marketing speak for "The Internet + AR."

It’s not going to be this cross-cultural, consumer-friendly thing these tech moguls are proclaiming, because every one of them is going to try and carve up a slice of society to keep to themselves.

Or, they recognize that Facebook can’t be trusted to regulate anything, and cryptocurrency is a scam.

No, they just don’t want their service associated with NFT scams. Which is… all NFTs.