Addiction in the age of the metaverse
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Are You Coming?
The meteverse is envisaged as an enchanting digital universe running in parallel to the real world. One former meta employee claims it will be so addictive that we will unplug from reality altogether. Once you talking about allowing unfettered access to people's realities and manipulating it to a certain extent, that's got severe implications for peopl's mental health. The u k, gaming industry is worth over seven billion pounds. Globally, it's over 250 billion dollars. What drives a lot of that revenue are on line games like these.
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