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Discussion on: What 2021 software trends are going to fade away in 2022?

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Metaverse

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Eljay-Adobe

Reminds me of Second Life from 2003. Which is still around, but isn't VR.

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Alison Haire

They did make a VR version - samsara or something. But I don't think anyone uses it

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Adam Davis

Yeah, metaverse reminds me of when companies tried really hard to push 3D TVs. It was all over the news and inevitably some people bought them, but at the end of the day most people don't want to wear something extra on their face to interact with content they can already access.

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Yeah to be fair, I'm looking forward to the innovation like three.js, webassembly, theatre.js that we use to put 3D into websites or mobile apps without compromising on performance and being lock down into tools/ecosystems to deliver landing pages or stories on a browser.