Help Build -Some of- the Metaverse
I was going to tell you all about my Elon indignation again on here but being that I already covered it twice this week and that given enough rope and time he’ll soon hang himself again, let’s ignore his actions that only suggest maybe he’s taking his belief that we live in a simulation to the...
I was going to tell you all about my Elon indignation again on here but being that I already covered it twice this week and that given enough rope and time he’ll soon hang himself again, let’s ignore his actions that only suggest maybe he’s taking his belief that we live in a simulation to the extreme and treating real humans poorly because of it. Instead, speaking of simulations, let’s talk about the Metaverse.
As part of the research for my upcoming book “Tech-Led Culture” I’ve spent some time reacquainting myself with the topic and the state of connected technology. This doubles as product research seeds for our upcoming “To VR or Not VR” design sprint at PeopleNotTech. I last looked at it maybe a year ago, I was sorely disappointed by how little progress there was in the interim.
Analysts seem to agree that collaboration and productivity are, alongside gaming and learning the biggest potential applications of the Metaverse and therefore it would stand to reason that’s where we need to be headed since we are making the platform to empower the human side of work with our Dashboard but equally, we never made anything just for the sake of cool or trendy and without clear indication that customers would truly love it and derive serious benefits from it so we need to double-check the supposition first.
Our narrative in the design sprint? (and yes, we’re trying out the OKR alternative framework of NCT at PeopleNotTech) is “If work should ever take place in the Metaverse - how do we enable and enhance the human work with our platform on there?” and the first Commitment is that we find a way to efficiently MVP the Playbook and see how/if our users find any of the immersive learning benefits in using it. In fact, while we haven’t kicked it off yet, drop me a line in the comments or the DMs if you have an Oculus and would like to help us test.
If you don’t have time to participate in the experiment maybe you could send us a couple of words answering some of these questions please:
