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- drgs0
After several sleepless nights finally found a way to access this thing. Apparently you can run directly in the browser.
One of these worlds which you can "play" as a guest:
https://decentraland.org/- heh, i thought about developing for it a couple years ago, gave a visit and soon changed my mind. 'vapourland' doesn't have the same ringkingsteven
- drgs1
- Only a matter of time before Putin invades them all.shapesalad
- sted0
We spoke to 50+ Web 3 metaverse companies in the past year.
My takeaways, summarized.
- sted0
For example, if a creator sells an item for $1.00, then the Meta Quest Store fee would be $0.30 and the Horizon Platform fee would be $0.17, leaving $0.53 for the Creator before any applicable taxes.
- Continuity0
So, uh ... I haven't *really* been paying attention to this. But — from what I've been able to tell so far — how is Metaverse stuff any different than, say, Second Life? And why should I give a fuck?
- It's not. They conjoined a new term to an old thing. All MMORPGs are also metaverseBeeswax
- So, what you're saying is Mark Zuckerberg wants me to waste my valuable time on an MMORPG/ad-bombardmen... platform he owns? He can eat a bag of fried dicks.Continuity
- MMORPG + in-game purchases. Maybe including nfts, but not really sure how that works in practice.monNom
- More likely, it will just be the internet, except with even more subscriptions and paywalls in front of everything.monNom
- shapesalad1
I’m starting to think the metaverse will be the place we live in after we’ve lost all our money on crypto in the real world. As we’ll have no money left for anything pleasurable in the physical world. We’ll have to plug ourselves into the metaverse for any semblance of a day trip excursion.
- lol have you watched Ready Player One?!
Mark surely did...grafician - I wonder if the pleasure of going into a false reality to escape a dystopian world will be enough or will folk just end up killing themselves? It sounds shitPhanLo
- Same problems that are in the real world will exist there. There's already sexual harassment, etc. It's a sham, at least in my lifetime.formed
- lol have you watched Ready Player One?!
- mort_5
- why can't the metaverse be a world in which ONLY Mark Zuckerberg exists inside and the game is to keep him alive? Or dead? Collect data on that!Ianbolton
- LOL Ianmort_
- or a place where he continually dies horrible deaths at the hands of the users?
upvote your favourite offing!
thoughts and prayers to the losers!hans_glib - so feminine looking avatar. and creepy.shapesalad
- GTA is the actual metaverse.ApeRobot
- I hope Metaverse Meta succeeds and IRL Meta shutters operationsnb
- I'd put 20€ down on that freak Zuckerberg wanting to evade death by trying to transfer his consciousness into this shit sandwich.Continuity
- I'm still of the theory that he sees his as a convincing facsimile and he's created a perfect mirror world, but only because he's so boring-looking in real lifegarbage
- Eiffel tower and la Sagrada Família in a supermario-esq field. They are digging deep for that euro audience. Should have made zuck a mime to complete the look.monNom
- Needs more Antoine de Caunes & Jean Paul GaultierBluejam
- robotinc0
while the metaverse is stupid, the display tech being developed for future VR/AR headsets is pretty dope.
- Universal Scene Description (USD) https://graphics.pix…
the new VRML!uan
- Universal Scene Description (USD) https://graphics.pix…
- sted7
- https://futurism.com…sted
- Comrade Zuckerbergutopian
- Just missing the red arm band with that Hindu good luck symbolChimp
- PhanLo0
A 45-year-old man was injured after a package exploded at Northeastern University on Tuesday, with CNN reporting that it contained a manifesto attacking Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
- yuekit2
A key issue with Horizon’s development to date, according to Shah’s internal memos, is that the people building it inside Meta appear to not be using it that much. “For many of us, we don’t spend that much time in Horizon and our dogfooding dashboards show this pretty clearly,” he wrote to employees on September 15th. “Why is that? Why don’t we love the product we’ve built so much that we use it all the time? The simple truth is, if we don’t love it, how can we expect our users to love it?”
In a follow-up memo dated September 30th, Shah said that employees still weren’t using Horizon enough, writing that a plan was being made to “hold managers accountable” for having their teams use Horizon at least once a week. “Everyone in this organization should make it their mission to fall in love with Horizon Worlds. You can’t do that without using it. Get in there.”
- Sounding like a cult more and more...grafician
- corporate cults are rampant. LinkedIn is an example of that.tank02
- what I've been saying all along. the novelty wears off pretty quickly.hotroddy
- Maybe they’ve got better things to do like go out, catch a band, see a movie, go for a run, grab a bite, go on a date, get laid?_niko
- Or even rearrange their sock drawer, clean the tile grout, unclog the sink, get a jump on next years taxes, repaint the house, hang out with your mother-in-law_niko
- Or a million other things that are more enjoyable than the fucking metaverse_niko
- Way, way back in dev people were talking about how weirdly obsessed Zuck was with the project that nobody else seemed to care about, because it's lame as fuck.garbage
- Yup_niko
- yuekit0
Company Documents Show Meta’s Flagship Metaverse Falling Short
Horizon is designed to be a sprawling collection of interactive virtual spaces, or worlds, in which users appearing as avatars can shop, party and work.
Yet there are rarely any girls in the Hot Girl Summer Rooftop Pool Party, and in Murder Village there is often no one to kill. Even the company’s showcase worlds, such as Questy’s, a virtual arcade featured in a Super Bowl commercial earlier this year, are mostly barren of users.
According to internal statistics, only 9% of worlds built by creators are ever visited by at least 50 people. Most are never visited at all.
“An empty world is a sad world,” said one document summarizing the company’s efforts to herd users toward venues where they would encounter others.