Has the Metaverse Failed? – Breakpoint

Is the Metaverse headed for the graveyard? A 12 months and a half after its launch, the Metaverse stays vastly unpopular, regardless of tens of millions of {dollars} of company investments and dear advertising campaigns. Probably the most well-funded Metaverse app solely has 38 lively each day customers, and Microsoft and Disney have laid off their specifically designated Metaverse groups.  

Within the preliminary hype, Meta overestimated the need and demand for digital actuality. Meta may very well be our technology’s MySpace, quickly to get replaced by one thing superior, or it may very well be the failure to account for our embodied natures as image bearers.  

Although we’re susceptible to dissatisfaction with our our bodies and {our relationships}, we nonetheless crave “in-person” interplay and experiences, as a result of our our bodies are actual and so is the bodily world. Even essentially the most stunning image can not exchange seeing the Grand Canyon up shut. 

Digital knockoffs don’t change or alter who we actually are, physique and spirit, a “living soul” made within the picture and likeness of God.