Ken Kutaragi, one of the inventors of the Sony Playstation, a famous videogame console, has criticized the conception of the metaverse that some companies are pushing to the market.
Ken Kutaragi, father of the Sony Playstation, has issued his opinion about the metaverse narrative currently developing on the market. The former executive of Sony stated that he saw no point in the metaverse idea of separating the real world from the virtual one.Ken Kutaragi, one of the inventors of the Sony Playstation, has criticized the conception of the metaverse that some companies are currently pushing.
in an interview with Bloomberg his opinion about how the metaverse is being conceived, declaring that:Being in the real world is very important, but the metaverse is about making quasi-real in the virtual world, and I can’t see the point of doing it. You would rather be a polished avatar instead of your real self? That’s essentially no different from anonymous messageboard sites.This is essentially the road that Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is taking.