Facebook is a boomer infested, depressing, idiot shithole. I'm not spending extra money for hardware so I can experience that in VR.
If I wanted to experience that, I can visit my shitty boomer mother for free in reality.
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Note that this was a 10% cut. Meta has a lot of staff. They are also slightly pivoting to AR glasses, as they say Ray-Ban Display sales are much higher than anticipated. I think they see their chance of cornering the VR market as gone (probably because of android xr) (see https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-pauses-third-party-horizon-os-headsets/ ) but think they have a chance to dominate AR glasses / wearables.
good. i hope he turns purple, and shits on the carpet before dying from embarassment.
The imagery there was just beautiful, a perfect 5/7.
Would you take universal healthcare provided by Facebook, but they get to keep all your medical data?
No, because it will be great initially and then gradually erode into a system worse than we have now 🙃
Heh good question. If the healthcare is literally good. but yeah wth are they gonna do with the data
My kids played Occulus for a good while. Played gorilla tag then bone something. They kind of got bored of it and now it just sits on a shelf.
Vr is fun, meta ruined it with their massive privacy breaches and locked down janky maliciously coded Facebook linked shitware.
Same. It was “Well, WTF do we do with this now?”
…and then dad took it and discovered simracing in VR…
We are just resources to be used and discarded, objects and not people.
VR isn’t a bad idea.
…Zuckerberg is just an idiot.
That’s really what it comes down to. Facebook has some neat branches and employees, but at the end of the day, its head decision maker is chronically flakey and makes catastrophically bad financial choices, repeatedly.
He’s just so freaking rich it doesn’t even matter.
I still remember the original Metaverse pitch basically being 'We're going to copy VRChat but without any of the bits people enjoy'
Having only seen videos of VR Chat, your avatar can be a 6 foot penis or a anime girl or a skeleton with a trumpet. And I think Metaverse was trying to provide that for businesses and the general public?
How can you create a social hub where you can't be a 6 foot penis?
The original concept was more or less a virtual shopping mall with a character creator. Imagine VR chat but made by EA.
There will be a $12.99 monthly fee for imaging that
So WorldsAway but twenty years later?
I don't know how to tell you but Worlds Away was 20 years old... a decade ago.
!Released September 1995!<
He's so stupid if he really thought companies were willing to buy a VR headset for every employee so they can go to virtual meetings (like actual meetings are not already a chore)
Oh and add to that stupidity the fact that almost every company refused to keep working from home after the pandemic
Yeah, I don't like the idea that failed ideas are a waste, because that kind of thinking stifles technological advancement.
I do like thinking that we can have both technological advancement and healthcare.
Most reasonable explanation for this crap I heard:
- facebook is just a website that makes money through tracking and ads
- people need to use a device to access facebook, so they can get tracked and see ads
- apple and google own all your devices and started to block tracking and ads (except their own)
- Zuck saw a risky chance by investing in VR. The vision was to get everyone on their VR platform so they can continue to track you and show you ads
Now the vision is to get everyone on their AR platform so they can continue to track you and show you ads through your smart glasses.
cuckedberg bet that VR headsets were going to take over, which even back in 2018 seemed far fetched. He'd have had a better chance to fortify his stranglehold by spending all that money making fb's own custom android and securing deals with phone manufacturers.
These tech bros call them moonshots.
Which I can see them repurposing all the Metaverse stuff into glasses.
But not that I would touch that and feed the Zuck machine.
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