Very similar for me. I suspect Overte will feel better for me when I setup hosting my own avatar, world, etc.

I’ll add that Overte VR is the FOSS competitor. It also runs quite well, though is not quite feature competitive afaik.

I think we have sufficient data to say that social health is at least very different now. See the our-world-in-data topic page. In particular, one-person households have doubled.

Humans emotionally bond pretty easily, no? Like, we have folks attached to roombas, spiders, TV shows, and stuffed animals. Having a hard time thinking of anything X that I don’t personally know a person Y with Y emotionally engaged with X. Maybe taxes and concrete?

It’s a pretty clear humble-brag, no? The launch was only botched because people loved the previous personality; it’s an estimate of how much people care about the product and how much price gouging they could do later.

No it wasn’t good for OpenAI. But I doubt it changed many investor minds.