![Phil Libin says Meta's metaverse idea ‘old & uncreative’ Phil Libin says Meta's metaverse idea ‘old & uncreative’](https://varindia.com/storage/news/uploads/2018/02/62010728bcd65.jpg)
Evernote's Co-founder and former CEO Phil Libin has called Meta's vision for the metaverse an ‘uncreative’ and ‘old idea’ that has “been tried many, many times over the past four decades and it's never worked”.
Speaking about Meta's virtual reality meeting software, Horizon Workrooms, Libin said, “It's not gonna get better because it started bad. It started stupid.” In a podcast interview last month, he compared the hype with communist propaganda he received as a child living in the former Soviet Union.
He believes that using VR for meetings is less enticing than familiar technologies such as Zoom, where people can still do real-world things like drinking a cup of coffee. Libin said, “Can't do that with a giant plastic thing on my face without spilling hot coffee all over myself.”
He says the vision of the metaverse presented by Meta – one of an “interconnected 3D world that we experience for many hours a day, both for fun and for work primarily through VR” – “that package of things is godawful. It's an old idea, it's uncreative, it's been tried many, many times over the past four decades and it's never worked.”
The word "metaverse" is borrowed from science-fiction and refers to a future version of the internet accessed through immersive technologies such as virtual-reality and augmented-reality headsets. It has been pushed in particular by Mark Zuckerberg, who rebranded Facebook as Meta last year.
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