{"id":560,"date":"2022-05-13T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cogitateandpercolate.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:53:18","slug":"the-first-step-into-the-metaverse-isnt-the-hardest-its-the-nth-step-that-you-do-for-the-nth-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cogitateandpercolate.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"The first step into the Metaverse isn’t the hardest. It’s the nth step that you do for the nth time."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Response post to: The Forgotten Stage of Human Progress<\/a><\/p>\n


\n I’m knee deep in an XR implementation project. It’s going forward by
\ninches; each step aches with how small it is. If I measured it, it feels
\n like it would barely tick one mark on a stick. However, like a gardener
\n that makes one small snip here, one pull of a weed there, there is no
\novernight transformation. But still– in the messy work of
\nIMPLEMENTATION, I’m making a garden that turns heads and makes people
\nthink “I want to be there.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Seriously, here is the garden:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Today is one of those days where it feels like we are going 2 steps backwards with no step forward. When you hear it mentioned quietly, but over and over and over, that one of the biggest implementation problems we have in XR for education is “sound” — WE ARE NOT KIDDING.<\/p>\n

We have more problems with sound that with any other aspect of an experience. It is the TOP problem source.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Virbela had this problem in buckets. My hosts cringed every time I estimated that 20% of incoming users had sound problems. 20%!  If YouTube had a 20% failure rate that they presented to users, they would far, far out of business by now.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I watched this video<\/a> dated November 5, 2021 put out by Stanford University touting the first course taught in XR with Jeremy Bailenson where he claims it will be “an incredible journey for about half of this class”
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