Can Apple’s Vision Pro Revive the Metaverse?

The Metaverse: The Opium of a Generation or a 2nd Second Life?

Introduction

“Nvidia Just Showed Warren Buffett How It’s Done,” barked an Investor’s Business Daily headline a few years ago, topping a story about Nvidia’s company value eclipsing Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway stock price as if a random company’s rising share price had any lessons for one of world’s greatest investors.

The standard journalistic clickbait trick (trickbait?) of trying to catch a reader’s attention by showing how flawed an investor one of the richest men on the planet is does catch the eye, so well done IBD. However, the author’s claim that Nvidia was doing everything right intrigued me enough to look at the article, which claimed said Nvidia’s focus on key areas of growth for the most demanding computing needs was becoming quite profitable. “Its chips are already the go-to solution for artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency mining. And it’s staking its claim in the emerging ‘metaverse’ vision, which looks to move more of our daily lives online,” wrote the author, Matt Krantz.

I’m not completely sold on the metaverse, because, as many other writers have pointed out, we already have a metaverse and it’s called the first internet. There was also a second…