• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    3 days 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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      3 days ago

      This is because they include stuff like Roblox in the definition of Metaverse. I personally hate that.

      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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          3 days 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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            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.