It appears Meta’s Horizon Worlds may literally and figuratively not have legs after all.
I love how Facebitch changed the name of the company to Meta, and still haven’t changed it back.
… What?
The parent company changed their name to Meta because they were “focusing on the metaverse.” It’s still called Meta despite not a single person ever using their shitty second life oculus clone.
They changed their name to meta because they wanted to expand to more than just Facebook.com, pretty sure it was shortly after they bought instagram
You are dead wrong. They bought Instagram like a decade ago. They changed the name like 3 or 4 years ago if that, and they picked Meta because they were all in on the metaverse
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/technology/facebook-meta-name-change.html
https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/facebook-buys-instagram-for-1-billion/
I recall thinking Zuckerberg had copied the google/alphabet change from several years prior. And naming this meta-business-entity was super easy with his metaverse obsession, lol.
Yes I know that, I don’t understand what the relevance is? Why would they change their name back?
Do u kno da wae?
hahaha think of all the money stupid people spent on that.
So long… never knew you.
Is he being hunted in this picture?
Billionaires are the most dangerous game
What the fuck is the Metaverse?
It’s like an centralised version of lemmy where you have to spend thousands on hardware just to join - and that isn’t even hosting costs.
Basically a terrible bootleg of “Ready Player One”.
It means different things to different people.
Roblox is the most successful example.
Basically a VR space that Mark Zuckerberg thought was going to be the new internet and everyone will do their stuff there while wearing a VR headset and represented by an on screen avatar.
That’s the most human looking picture of Mark Zuckerberg I’ve ever seen
That’s still a thing? Is it just Zuck wondering around his own digital universe trying to find people to be friends with?
You can’t run with an idea if it has no legs?
I don’t understand how a single person besides zuckaguck ever thought this was interesting. I’ve always seen it as the stupidest shit ever, only happening because of zuckamuck’s stolen power and wealth. Zuckahuck’s vision is an absurdity, a freak. It should have never left his head.
20 years ago I worked in IT at a major university, and one of the things I managed there was a 3D visualization wall. Basically a 15 foot wide rear projection wall in 4k, and by wearing special goggles you could see in 3D.
I once saw a demonstration using that wall that showed how surgeons could theoretically perform surgery remotely when using haptic devices. For cutting edge technology from 20 years ago it was quite impressive.
For highly specialized remote activities, including the above, remote learning, etc. I could see something like this very useful. For general social activities, not at all.
the creepy Zuckerborg avatar just wants to read peoples minds.
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 always amazes me that some executives think that taking away customization is the way to get more traffic instead of driving away to people who put effort into making a customized thing
It amazes me that so many people bought this product from Meta. When the Oculus Rift was first announced I was so excited and hopeful that we were finally going to get VR right… then they got bought by Facebook and I knew right then that I’d never own one. Here’s hoping the new Steam headset can live up to the hype.
I miss my original Oculus Home. Had a nice arrangement of furniture, a shooting range, a little shelf that held virtual cartridges of all my games, various little statues and trophies that you could display for achievements… and they just got rid of it all.
Immediately killed any interest I had in customizing my virtual space. Why bother if they’re just going to rug pull it at any time. They could’ve at least let us continue to visit it “offline”.
If only I could access Second Life via the Metaverse…
IT WAS STILL AROUND???
Second Life outlived it lmao
and nothing of value was lost
(Except of course the billions of dollars spent building it)
That’s the only thing I like about this situation. That money went to the people who worked on the project.
Did it really or did it just grow market caps
it wasn’t meta spending on privacy invading crap that sticks around so whether it ended up as salaries or fake money it didn’t go directly to bad things
Seems unlikely that zero of that investment benefitted projects like the upcoming Steam Frame.
How would the Steam Frame have benefited from Meta’s funding?
Because they were able to learn from the technology that was created.
They already had the valve index VR headset released 2 years before Meta’s metaverse became a focus in 2021
Then they all get laid off. And they lose their health insurance. And their houses get foreclosed on.
But, for time they had employment and the money wasn’t going to a yacht maintenance crew and hookers
Holy tax write-offs, Batman!
