[mw888]

Web3 being somehow related to VR is a clear sign of the ultimate strawman. NFT’s are a tiny innovation, VR is completely unrelated, Web3 on HN is a derogatory term leaning off the assumption that it’s focus is NFTs and VR video games.

[plaguepilled]

Wat.

Metaverse is web3. Metaverse is also VR. Its not a strawman if there's a big, well known example that markets itself as an example of the thing being criticised.

What isn't web3 is the absence of a counterexample.

[danaris]

"Web3" didn't start to refer to anything VR or metaverse-related until very recently. For years, it's been the vague promise of a decentralized system, enabled by handwavey blockchain technobabble.

But now, with Meta's metaverse being hyped to high heaven, but also proving to be pretty much a nothingburger, suddenly web3 means metaverse, too? I smell shenanigans.