Metaverse DMV

Gm and happy Wednesday.

For my international audience, there's this thing in America called the Department of Motor Vehicles. It's an institution that handles the issuing and renewal of drivers licenses as well as things like the certification to drive certain types of commercial vehicles.

Typically what happens at the DMV is you get there, choose a number, sit on a mildly uncomfortable chair for what feels like hours, and then you answer a few questions and hopefully end up with a license to drive complete with a terrible photo of you.

In one of the brainstorms I do for this newsletter, the words "Metaverse DMV" popped into my head and the visual above immediately came to mind. All I had to do for this was grab an Oculus headset POV image, cut out the placeholder images in the eye holes and replace them with a DMV image. The result is perfectly mundane and slightly depressing.

Meta made a substantial bet on the "metaverse" which markets generally agreed to be a failed experiment. The push to get people interested in the metaverse felt like an attempt to shoehorn existing experiences into a digital format rather than rethinking them from the ground up. I took this to the extreme by creating a "Metaverse DMV" where you theoretically wait in line and get your paperwork issued ✨ digitally ✨

This is far fetched but with how crazy stuff got in 2021 I could almost see it happening.

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