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Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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Sure, if there's: (a) investment in it, and (b) engineering and research behind it.
The person in the article is doubting that there will be A, and the way things are trending in America I doubt B will occur here.
Political stability isn't just a "nice to have" it's "table stakes" as the suits are fond of saying. People are not going to achieve much advanced research in a country that is actively collapsing.
But who knows? Maybe China will crack it.