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![]() ![]() Companies like Facebook are betting that will lead to a boost in offices relying on virtual reality and digital avatars to forge connections and recapture some of the spark that comes from face to face interactions. First, an ongoing pandemic has driven many to more fully adopt remote work. I think the answer is yes, and I think the tipping point is two fold. Have we reached some meaningful inflection point in our journey towards this dream? Facebook isn’t the first major company to declare its ambition to build the metaverse see for example this tweet from Epic Games in 2019 or this wonderful essay from Matthew Ball published at the beginning of 2020. ![]() A question worth asking is, why now? The concept of the Metaverse was coined by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson decades ago, and technologists have been writing about it on and off ever since. There has been a lot of chatter lately about the Metaverse, sparked by Mark Zuckerberg’s repeated declarations that building a virtual world is his company’s next big ambition, and the announcement of Horizon Workrooms brings that ambition closer to reality. When it came to building rapport with their peers, the clothing, vehicles, and dwellings you can purchase inside of this app were more important to them than what they actually wore to school, the kind of car we drove, or the kind of home we lived in. After school, they would meet up in the virtual world of Brookhaven, a digital city you can explore inside the Roblox universe. Luckily, my children and their peers had a world where they could hug, jump, and run together. Social distancing, as the name implies, is not conducive to creating strong new social relationships. They had to make new friends, and they had to do it while wearing masks that hid their faces and staying six feet apart on the playground. Like many families dislodged by the pandemic, my wife and I sent our children to a new school last year. ![]()
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