Technology

It's funny because the meta quest recently had an update that got rid of custom/user created environments for the home area and only gave you some shitty options. The default one was a shitty balcony that overlooked a big stupid tower advertising this and they made the "portal" to it permanent and unremoveable.

In addition to this almost every time you opened a menu it would pop up a fucking ad/link to enter the application almost every time.

Pretty sure now this was a desperate last ditch effort to try to increase traffic - but clearly NO ONE wanted it and it just pissed everyone off more.

If they want to save face to any degree they should revert that fucking patch ASAP. I miss my home environment being a fucking derelict warehouse.

IT WAS STILL AROUND???

It’s funny how almost everyone from FAANG is failing hard in the gaming space. Like Google fails with Stadia, Amazon shutdown how many game studios, Netflix shutdown that studio that were making a Squidgame game and the Zuck dumped billions into the metaverse void. Looks like the Silicon Valley way of doing business just doesn’t work in the games industry.

VRChat is the most popular “metaverse” and it’s still growing every year.

So it’s weird to call the metaverse dead when Horizon wasn’t even in the lead among its competitors.

and nothing of value was lost

Meta (the company hilariously rebranded with this non-sense as their foundation) has moved on to the next grift: AI and mobile video surveillance devices.

Oh no! Shock! I would rather join MySpace before I purchased a house in the "metaverse".

Even his avatar looks dead.

Say 'goodbye' already??

I never got to say 'hello' in the first place!!

Looks like meatverse is back on the menu

Metaverse was like the AI nobody asked for getting pushed into apps. Nobody wanted Wii Mii like hangout rooms where you have to water a clunky headset.

For real, they should have either bought or cloned VRChat as a first step, and then looked into expanding from there. That shit is a metaverse that people willing go into primarily because it enables a ton of free expression.

I miss the Playstation Home game. Wish that was vr.

How can I say goodbye to a place neither I nor anybody I know has ever been

But a device you kind of use sometimes (if you remember you own it)

Oh shit I do own one. Thanks for the reminder

The metaverse, in some form, is nearly inevitable IMO. But it'll be a federated-like infrastructure and I'm very glad Facebook will have fuck all to do with it.