Why did the metaverse die? Because Silicon Valley doesn’t understand the concept of fun

AR has a huge battery life and size problem. The amount of video processing that thing would need to do to be useful, would result in an enormous device with an hour or two of battery life. Rendering it useless for any real world consumer application.

On top of that it has a gigantic privacy and surveillance problem.

And if that wouldn't be enough, what the heck are you going to do with it? Everything an AR headset could do, you can do today with your phone already. There is very little need to wear that functionality on your head all the time.

For some rare business use cases it can make sense, that's why Microsoft Hololens is still around, but even they struggle to finding any areas where it makes it past the "nice idea" stage and actually into a working product.

VR is just a marketing hype to collect VC money, that's it.

Just like crypto, AI, Cloud, Big Data, share economy, Internet of things, etc. They all get hyped like hell, burn billions of VC money, and after a few years actually useful products might appear, but are several orders of magnitude more mundane.

It's so predictable, that even Gartner found out about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

A simple heads up display with an integrated personal assistant has enormous potential in both personal and business uses right now if it was reasonably priced and reliable. You could replace cell phones.

I'm honestly wondering if the new Apple thing will take off like this. It's overpriced, but this is the company that sells $700 wheels to people successfully, and the concept looks great.

You know all those programmer memes about screen arrangement? You could have them all and more with a single headset.