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I am excited to see the comments. Please comment on where you think the future of gambling will be. What kinds of benefits will the gambling experience of the future bring in all walks of gambling? Will it be a good thing or a bad thing? What do you think makes the gambling experience the best in your opinion? Pick and choose any / all questions to be answered- I can't wait to see what everyone says.
Consumer protection for gamblers is on the rise, so that trend will probably keep on growing. But how far to the future are we looking at?
Metaverse is happening on gambling too, but people don't see it as metaverse, it's just added reality, and we might see it clearer, when activities, like social communication happen with AR as a layer on top of it, we suddenly go way deeper more in that meta level.
We are already in many ways using metaverse, like with online communities, we just don't think about it as such, since facebook tried to sell us it like a cheap wii graphics world. Facebook's metaverse was garbage idea from the start, add weirdly similar to early virtual reality concepts, and i really don't have a clue why anyone would give it green light from a concept to product in the first place. But it's a prototype and example how not to build it.
Real unified AR/VR game world could happen soon though, tech for it isn't just cheap enough. But look at the quantum computing and AI development for example, and how big leaps they took in short time, there's no telling what those can create in few years, like simulated real time worlds for example. That would be actual metaworld and we could gamble about ncps in that simulation, and probably admit that we could be part of similar simulation and someone is gambling on what we do.
In shorter time frame i would hope for more interesting games then current table games and slots, but i don't believe anyone would benefit developing them, as one of the attractions in them is that they require no thinking.