March 28, 2024

Everyrealm CEO: Ready Player One gave us the wrong idea about the metaverse

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CEO Everyrealm: The film "Ready Player One" gave us the wrong idea about metaverses

Everyrealm CEO Janine Yorio believes that people are more comfortable interacting with technology through monitor screens rather than using VR headsets.

Speaking at the Korean Blockchain Week conference2022, Janine Yorio said that Steven Spielberg's film based on the novel of the same name, Ready Player One, gave a glimpse of what life could be like if we lived in a metaverse. 

However, in current realities this ideais incorrect, since the main character of the work wears a VR headset, and most modern developments in the metaverse industry are focused on computer monitors. 

Yorio emphasized that the main reason for thisconsumer preferences have become - people are more comfortable interacting with technologies that are forty centimeters from their face, rather than four. Also, most people don't own headsets like this and it's still a niche market.

According to the CEO of Everyrealm, the idea thatthe metaverse will be exclusively in virtual reality, unrealistic. While Ready Player One managed to show that this "immersive photorealistic environment" was an exciting concept, it won't happen in the near future as people are not yet used to interacting with technology in this way.

Yorio also stated that the next three yearswill be the most exciting time for metaverses as major game studios start doing something in this space and the industry will see mass adoption.

Earlier, computer security experts from the antivirus company Trend Micro said that in the first few years of their existence, metaverses will become breeding grounds for crime.