Today I attended a meta event for a virtual tour of Hegra, the ancient city in Saudi Arabia. Before entering the event, I customized my avatar, which started to connect this to video game experiences for me. Overall, I thought the experience was successful but similar to an educational video game, especially because I was the only person in the Meta space at the time.
My biggest critique of the experience was that features such as chatting were limited to paying customers, and I feel that the technology should be free at the moment to attract more users.
I think that the technology works as an entertainment tool / similar to a video game but has the added benefit of being web browser based. The idea of buying gaming consoles has always driven me away from computer games.
I don’t see this technology working as an advertising tool unless Meta spaces become more universal. New technologies like this can feel gimmicky to users including myself, so I don’t see why ads on the Meta space would be a successful alternative to ads on more mainstream platforms.