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1. “buzzwords and futurist predictions. He's optimistic that we're still on the path towards a new spatial internet. Progress is being made, and booms and busts are just part of the directory from where we are now to where we might be in the future. Okay, the metaverse with Matthew Ball. Here we go. Matthew Ball, you are the CEO and managing partner of Apillion and author of the book The Metaverse, Building the Spatial Internet, which is a different title for a book that we already talked about. Welcome to Dakota.”

   2024-07-18 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · What happened to the metaverse? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “It's tempting to think that the metaverse just fizzled out after the huge explosion of hype that came after Facebook renamed itself to Meta, hype which the lackluster Quest Pro and Messy Horizon platform couldn't really live up to, and hype, which eventually feels like it got totally washed away by the arrival of generative AI. But Matt's point is that the metaverse didn't just disappear. The major players like Meta, Fortnite Maker, Epic Games, and Roblox, they're all still plugging away at it, albeit gradually. While Meta and Apple go head to head on hardware, the gaming companies whose engines make the 3D internet come to life are still working on some of the core technical ideas, all while contending with an industry wide downturn that's led to waves of layoffs, not to mention a pretty stark lack of consumer enthusiasm in the whole metaverse concept combined with some intense backlash to both crypto and AI. Matt and I got into all that and more, and he made the case for why the ideas of power what we think of as the metaverse today are a lot bigger than just”

   2024-07-18 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · What happened to the metaverse? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Nilapatel, editor in chief of the Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. This week I'm talking to Matthew Ball, who was lost on the show in 2022 to talk about his book, The Metaverse, How It Will Revolutionize Everything. It's 2024 now, and it's safe to say that that has not yet happened. But Matt's still on the case. In fact, he just released an almost complete update of the book, now with a much more sober title, Building the Spatial Internet. Matt and I talked a lot about where the previous metaverse hype cycle layed us and what there is to learn from these boom and bust waves in technology. We also talked quite a bit about the Apple Vision Pro as sort of a marker or a symbol of where the Metaverse is now and where it has yet to go. If you read or watched My Vision Pro Review in the Verge when it came out, you know that I think the Vision Pro is sort of an endpoint for one set of technologies. And I wanted to know if Matt felt the same way and what needs to happen to make all of this much more mainstream and accessible.”

   2024-07-18 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · What happened to the metaverse? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT