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spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Apparently it mostly appeals to young children, or maybe people pretending to be young children.

more than half of the metaverse’s active users are aged 13 and below.

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owlboy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is because they include stuff like Roblox in the definition of Metaverse.

If we kept it to SocialVR titles, the demographics would shift to something more balanced, afaik. VRC bans people under 13 when they are discovered/reported.

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- spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Oh, so metaverse not Metaverse.
  
  Yeah, that isn’t confusing and stupid.
  
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  - owlboy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah it sucks. Meta shit all over the term. And then every other company jumped on board claiming their stuff is a metaverse too. Even Microsoft claimed Teams was a metaverse.
    
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    echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Jesus I can’t think of anything I would want less than a Teams metaverse. Although I do have a macabre fascination as to how they could make the product even worse.
    
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Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hopefully that means less of a little bastard’s will be in VRC.

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- spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Vampire Recreational Coffins?
  
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  - Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    (VRChat)
    
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