[ahupp]

Ok I see what you're getting at. Yes, there are plenty of VR apps that don't require that kind of latency control. A game that's 99% local, but shows you a leaderboard of top scorers, etc. Even an app that has a significant real-time component will have plenty of HTTP requests as well.

But the word "metaverse" appears in the first sentence of the post we're discussing, and real-time interaction with other people's avatars does call for this kind of protocol.

[jayd16]

But that's entirely my point. Even for the metaverse, the majority will be cheap async http-like calls and not always connected game servers. If IKEA is joining the metaverse, do they want to spin up a realtime game they maintain or will they want to statically host client heavy VR content?

We should focus on how we bring the lessons of past 20 years into these sci-fi concepts. We need to consider how businesses find success today and bring that to VR to be successful.