I do like the idea of business people doing business in a VR boardroom instead of flying all over the place and wasting company money on hotels and fine dining. Nothing to do with meta but how a VR tool can be used for things other than gaming.

Sure but I fear that they all feel so important that they won't use it.

AI

SLOP

I'm actually kinda angry. There was a lot of money being thrown at this metaverse thing, and I wanted to milk that sweet Facebook money for as long as I can building products nobody use. Now I'll never get that chance.

I remember when Amazon went all-in on gaming. Everyone was skeptical, and they partnered up with so many Asian companies.

Then they pulled out. Then they pulled back in. And now they're kinda in a weird place.

Microsoft too.

They flip flop over if gaming is important to them all the time.

Yeah time to start saving as much as you can if they buy you, if you weren’t already doing so.

Then you’ll at least have something for when the inevitable comes.

I want cloud gamified LLM GenAI NFT Cryptocurrency Neural network IoT Web3 Metaverse!

It's a bug in our simulation. If you're poor and you lose a little money, you go bankrupt. But if you're rich and you burn a fuckton of money, you can buffer overflow into richness and go back on top.

I've always appreciated that they stole the name from Snow Crash. Like Zuck completely unironically named his company after a technological dystopian hellscape infected with a virus that destroys people's brains. Honestly, I don't think there's a better name for Facebook.

completely predictable outcome of an obviously stupid fucking idea

Nah, it could have worked if Meta started by

1. sell the hardware to businesses and schools at a loss, with a requirement users be able to take the sets home.

2. Publish standards to allow all apps to have multiplayer and compatible full body avatars, same control scheme, movement, etc.

3. buying up VRChat and any other apps with a large user base, refactoring them for compatibility.

4. Develop and release free multiuser apps, from virtual office/meetings to virtual movies to home decor.

Somehow FB didn't even try to exploit the same effects that forced everyone into Apple, MS, and FB.

To be clear, its for the best, the end result of FB giving out millions of headsets at a loss would have been making even more money selling much more precise user data, and virtual nikes and shit.

Wait, hold up, are you telling me that you knew no one would want to wear a headset to join a 90’s style AOL chat room?

"Flop", to me, implies some sort of jump. "Metaverse" just kinda rolled off the edge of a cliff immediately, like a dog shitting on a frozen hill.