Are video calls the best we can do in the age of the metaverse? | Josephine Eyre
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The Metaverse: A New Way to Communicate
Video calls are confusing and they hurt our creativity, so why are we still using them? People say it's the best we have or it's the closest thing we can get to real life. So this got me thinking. What if rather than trying to recreate reality, we aimed for something better? Now there's already a multi-billion dollar industry devoted to just this. Instantly transporting you somewhere else and enabling you to be present and creative with people from around the world. Many games are laying the foundation for the metaverse. I like to think of it as an evolved 3D experiential version of the internet. Virtual reality is one of the most powerful technologies we can use to
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