Interesting that Apple is going with spatial.

Spatial vs metaverse vs virtual worlds vs 3-D 

Spatial and 3-D sound a little more device-related vs metaverse and virtual world more network-related

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+1, plus why get into a language war with Meta over meta?

“spatial” makes the most sense to me to describe a holistic, integrated experience. metaverse and virtual imply fragmentation or siloes, and the Apple Vision Pro is simply not that.

“Metaverse” and “virtual” are both nerd-coded

Spatial sounds classy and futuristic

Absolutely. 

Spacial is a new computing interface like multitouch or the GUI/Mouse. 

Metaverse is an application (or set of meta-applications) you can access on a number of computing interfaces. 

To me this makes perfect sense and never understood why Meta was trying to make metaverses only in VR.

Don’t you think it also has to do with product marketing and branding? Apple effectively owns the world “spatial” relative to auditory senses, it can easily ladder into the visual sense using the same.

Spatial sounds more XR than metaverse and virtual worlds. Space includes the real world

I wonder if mark will rebrand meta to spat