Last year, Facebook bought Oculus VR for $2 billion. I remember thinking the acquisition seemed a bit random, but this is why it makes sense:
Consider that Facebook has the best database of our real life avatars (even if they are in abstract form right now) along with their connections. If only they could create a place, THE place, where the world could get together and hang out..
Imagine Google Earth meets GTAV meets Facebook.
Such a place could then be a platform for games, education, communication, collaboration, work, tourism, culture, entertainment, commerce, etc.
This development would be financed by the earnings of its own marketplace and of course, ads.
It should prove to be a challenge to develop, so most likely it would be a collaboration between tech giants, but whoever can pull it through will own the next big thing, which could eventually evolve into something like The O.A.S.I.S..
What do you think? Would a unified, single-instance virtual world be successful or would it be just another Second Life?
TLDR: we already have the technology to create a multi-purpose virtual world that would be actually useful, and Facebook might be onto something..
Submitted March 25, 2016 at 07:00PM by Speckart http://ift.tt/21LbK6u
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