It appears Meta’s Horizon Worlds may literally and figuratively not have legs after all.
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VRChat is the most popular “metaverse” and it’s still growing every year.
So it’s weird to call the metaverse dead when Horizon wasn’t even in the lead among its competitors.
I get your point, I genuinely do. But the way the general public uses the term metaverse is to refer to Horizon, not that style of game/app in general.
VRChat is not owned by meta, therefore not part of the meta verse.
Metaverse is not the same as VR.
No but undeniably the death of the metaverse is taking VR with it, once meta leaves the VR space it will be exclusively for enthusiasts and low quality indie games.
Valve is releasing a new headset.
People here forget that a likely $700+ headset designed for streaming (let’s be honest we have no idea how many games will make native ports) is mostly gonna take off with VR enthusiasts. Like the Index this is an explicitly premium headset.
once meta leaves the VR space it will be exclusively for enthusiasts and low quality indie games.
I literally never even heard of anything associated with Horizons that wasn’t a low-quality cashgrab or some kind of scam.
Disagree. Roblox and Fortnite metaverses will continue long after VR disappears.
VR space it will be exclusively for enthusiasts and low quality indie games.
Good. It’ll finally have a fighting chance to be great.
I guess VRChat will still exist but getting into VR will be very difficult
VR is virtual reality. A mode of interacting with 3D space using a head mounted display.
The metaverse is just social VR where you experience a shared 3D space with others in VR headsets. Don’t let Mark fool you into thinking only they make social VR spaces/the metaverse. That’s what he wants. He didn’t invent the term. He just claimed it as his own. And in my opinion, pissed all over it too.
Might as well call Second Life a part of the Metaverse. It isn’t, but by your reasoning it would be.
You don’t use VR headsets in SecondLife. It’s a lame flat screen third person thing where you play with dolls.
SocialVR is about embodiment too. Being your avatar. Eye contact. Presence. Third person control of a character model is not the same thing.
No, You don’t. It is possible, and people do. VR ≠ The Metaverse. VR is used in all sorts of things that have nothing to do with The Metaverse
I’m not saying all VR is the metaverse. I’m saying SocialVR and the metaverse are the same.
And does the official client for SecondLife support VR now? I thought they abandoned attempts at that.
Even his avatar looks dead.
Pretty life-like tbh
Making it ironically the most photorealistic thing on the Metaverse.
Meta (the company hilariously rebranded with this non-sense as their foundation) has moved on to the next grift: AI and mobile video surveillance devices.
isnt meta kinda late in the game for AI anyways, apple was even later and they abandoned for the most part.
Not later than anyone else that hopped on the chat gpt bandwagon.
They’ve been in the AI game for about as long as everyone else. I would consider their lab to be one of the best in CV tech.
To be fair, they’ve been doing mobile surveillance for a long time.
after thier propaganda feeds in fb wasnt generating enough profit.
Sure, but I did specifically say mobile video surveillance. Pretty sure their goal is to reduce the friction of taking out your phone to start capturing a video.
I’ve already ended a friendship over these stupid things.
Based. Corporate shit impacts the planet’s survival, there will be time for friends if we don’t go extinct
Yeah those glasses are even ruining the rest of Ray bans sunglasses for me. Sucks because they fit my face well.
The knockoffs are pretty comfortable, and much cheaper, and come with no gimmicky tech.
Yeah I wear knockoffs most of the time since I’m not very careful with them.
They still sell the regular wayfarers too, but I don’t want make people have to look twice to make sure I’m not surveilling them.
Ah, yeah. That makes sense. I’ve don’t that double take many times, and it gets exhausting. I appreciate you thinking of others like this. Seriously. Thank you.
Those glasses are the evolution of VR.
I love that they changed their name to show how serious they were about the metaverse being the future of tech and it never even came close to being a thing.
Say ‘goodbye’ already??
I never got to say ‘hello’ in the first place!!
But a device you kind of use sometimes (if you remember you own it)
Oh shit I do own one. Thanks for the reminder
May I ask why? It seems like a huge risk due to being tethered to a Facebook account which could get banned at any time. Was the price too good to pass up?
I got it for free like four years ago and have barely used it since
That’s the most human looking picture of Mark Zuckerberg I’ve ever seen
“I just bought more land in the Metaverse”
Can’t wait for Metaverse land annexations (hackers)
The whole appeal is that “land” is free. No one will pay
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.
I love how Facebitch changed the name of the company to Meta, and still haven’t changed it back.
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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.
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It’s closer to being a Betaverse than anything of value.
Do u kno da wae?
hahaha think of all the money stupid people spent on that.
This will die, but in one year GTA6 will release. People are already “working” virtual jobs for pennies in unofficial servers for the last game and Rockstar has prepared the ground even more for the next.
It will happen to ai too.
It’s funny how almost everyone from FAANG is failing hard in the gaming space. Like Google fails with Stadia, Amazon shutdown how many game studios, Netflix shutdown that studio that were making a Squidgame game and the Zuck dumped billions into the metaverse void. Looks like the Silicon Valley way of doing business just doesn’t work in the games industry.
Which is weird, because the gaming industry is full of low effort, hyper monetized slop that sells extremely well.
Almost any other company and Stadia could have survived.
Stadia was amazing for what it was, so obviously Google had to kill it
