The future of the metaverse is promising, and when combined with the increasingly advanced technologies of VR equipment, if combined with crypto, they can be a huge success in the not too distant future.
Unfortunately the value of the equipment is still very expensive and inaccessible for many people, I hope this changes soon.
Only on the issue of health, I'm a little concerned, because if today people already exchange many experiences of face-to-face relationship through online and video chats, imagine then that the metaverse is quite widespread.
Metaverse wont be completed without a VR equipment but with crypto? I do not think its necessarily needed but if they add it then fine, it will be a good news for us who support crypto because they are being introduced along with the newer technologies.
Speaking of the equipment, the VR technology is not that new anymore so I believe there are now older versions of VR that are cheap and affordable for the masses. They need to decrease its value over time if they will release a newer model, the same thing happens on mobile phones, gaming consoles and other stuffs. If your worrying about health issues, just do not over use it but only use it as moderation and you will be fine.
Yea no, let's not put crypto as a requirement for the metaverse bs. Pretty sure it could live as a stand-alone, maybe an integration as an addition of sorts if you were going for something fully anonymous (but fr, if it's developed by a company, expect a certain amount of KYC and data gathering so I think that's just useless).
regarding costs it'll probably go down, remember personal computer and cellphones 20 years ago? it was much rarer to see it and much more expensive.
regarding health I agree with you, in fact I'm reading a book by Naval and just read a page where he says that in general, more screens = less happiness, less screens = more happiness.
I have read some studies that seem to indicate that the more screen time that a person employs in front of digital devices the greater the chance they are suffering depression, now as we know correlation does not mean causation, however it seems that the current generation that is spending so much time online already is neither happier or better because of it, and something like the metaverse is only going to make this even worse.
Pretty sure that's rather subjective? I've always faced a screen in the past 3,4 years and I've never been unhappy (or depressed). Those studies were probably when we were transitioning into the current tech, it would've been rather expected.