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  • yuekit1

    It's amazing how within the space of a single year, Zuckerberg single-handedly managed to ruin the concept of "Metaverse"

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    • The fundmental difference being that Stephenson's vision wasn't a fucking walled garden. It was more like "MVTP://" gateway linksNairn
    • But yes, you're quite right :)Nairn
    • Think he made it after Ready Player One, at least that's his vision anyway it seems

      He should've made it open source from day one but Zuck is not that smart      grafician
    • Does Zuck have any self awareness?utopian
    • Does Zuck know that he's a living meme?utopian
    • when you're touching the lives of so many worldwide, you gotta take a lot of responsability - over the years he confirmed again and again he's just a techbrografician
    • The whole thing just seems like an expensive vanity project... no one was able to tell "Zuck" it wasn't a good idea.yuekit
    • I still think VR has potential but if anything they set it back a few years with this Metaverse nonsense.yuekit
    • I’ve heard some anecdotal reports from people saying things like “My kids basically live in the metaverse. They spend all their free time in a VR mask”nb
    • Maybe a bunch of middle-aged men (us) aren’t the people to predict whether tech will be adoptednb
    • VR also gives people motion sickness so...grafician
    • VR doesn't give people motion sickness, the technical limitations do. This is being diminished with each iterationrobotinc
    • this narrative change happened right around the time apple changed up user tracking and 3rd party cookies stopped being a thing. Facebook’s business was...monNom
    • mortally wounded, but “what if we had some kind of shiny bauble for investors to get excited about?” Maybe we could be valued like a startup, instead of as a...monNom
    • Mature ad business that just lost the entire basis for its pricing power. You can get valued based on ‘What ifs’ instead of revenues. At least for a while.monNom
    • Pretty sure Tesla autopilot was the same thing. No robo taxis in the foreseeable future, but in the mean time, it provided cover for production to spool up.monNom
    • ^ all thisgrafician
    • There are robo taxis now in California.ShenanigansTV
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