Microblog Memes

I mean, it was doomed from the beginning. There was no vision, no problem to be solved, no benefit for the user.

Why would the world need this VR space? For meetings or chats? We have virtual meetings and this adds nothing of value. For games? The graphics are bad (to allow more people to use it) and there are better VR games. For companies to advertise? You would need something to get people to go there.

They should have created a benefit for the user first and if that is successful add more.

They could have started with a Sims clone or a WOW clone to get people interested and invested before adding the rest. Selling virtual land only makes sense if it's worth something.

I mean he just pumped that money into the US and Chinese economy. It's not like he lit a pile of money on fire like the Joker. Most of that money went into salaries of the people doing R&D and manufacturing of the headsets in China. Lets hope the Zuck has a dozen more of these failures.

I just realised what Zuck looks like in the metaverse: the evil kid from toy story!

John Carmack had some choice words when he left Meta.

"We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort. There is no way to sugar coat this; I think our organization is operating at half the effectiveness that would make me happy.

"It has been a struggle for me. I have a voice at the highest levels here, so it feels like I should be able to move things, but I’m evidently not persuasive enough. A good fraction of the things I complain about eventually turn my way after a year or two passes and evidence piles up, but I have never been able to kill stupid things before they cause damage, or set a direction and have a team actually stick to it. I think my influence at the margins has been positive, but it has never been a prime mover."

Imagine getting John Carmack on your project and ignoring him. Like, what was the point? Zuck got lucky in the beginning and was cut throat enough to hold on to it, but he has no entrepreneurial talent.

Anyone remember when the media was sucking Meta’s dick over the metaverse like they’re doing now with AI?

$73G to make VR Miis with no legs

Meanwhile, VRChat:

MetaZuc looks more human than the real thing.

It wasn't for nothing! I'm sure Meta generated tons of patents they'll use to stifle anyone else in the industry who tries to innovate.

My conspiracy theory is that it was wildly successful, because the point wasn't creating whatever VR space they claimed wanted to happen; it was to cover up the story of the Facebook papers. The timing lines up (both in October 2021 within a day or two). The additional patents acquired in the process are just a nice little bonus.

Investors ate up the idea from someone who has a history of wildly successful growth. And we all know, it would have been outcry from investors that caused any real change (in America at least) about Facebook's business practices.

They could have done this AND universal healthcare. Universal Healthcare would actually save us money allowing us to put more into useless BS like Meta VR.

This is an amount that would cover university tuition for all American students for a year.

read one vr llc he paid 45b for was a total scam. posted a few months back; sigh; https://futurism.com/scale-ai-zuckerberg-incompetence

I’m sorry, the free market allocated that cash to efficient uses. 

If it makes you feel better, that $77 billion was just numbers in a ledger. Vapor bucks. It was just a representation of Zuckerburg's power in society, which is now gone. It's not like $77 billion in food or housing vanished. The financial economy is mostly not backed by real things.

Has no one commented on the side eye - “what the feck am I doing working for this idiot?”

There's something wrong with anyone who doesn't find that image disturbing.

Brrr.