Meta, having renamed itself Meta and spending billions on it, is shutting down it's metaverse VR platform.
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Meta, having renamed itself Meta and spending billions on it, is shutting down it's metaverse VR platform. https://www.theshortcut.com/p/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr-despite-investing-billions-into-the-metaverse
@GossiTheDog Desperate to get in on the next WWW early!
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Meta, having renamed itself Meta and spending billions on it, is shutting down it's metaverse VR platform. https://www.theshortcut.com/p/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr-despite-investing-billions-into-the-metaverse
@GossiTheDog That's so sad. All those avid users of the metaverse being left behind.
Do you think they'll be able to find solace in sport? Form a five-a-side football team, maybe.
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Meta, having renamed itself Meta and spending billions on it, is shutting down it's metaverse VR platform. https://www.theshortcut.com/p/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr-despite-investing-billions-into-the-metaverse
don't worry, all these orgs are also hyping GenAI as the next big thing.




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Meta, having renamed itself Meta and spending billions on it, is shutting down it's metaverse VR platform. https://www.theshortcut.com/p/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr-despite-investing-billions-into-the-metaverse
@GossiTheDog
I'm not clued up enough to understand what remains of "the Metaverse" the Zuckster was banging on about a few years back, once you kill the VR component. Does that mean some significant part of his metaverse enterprise still remains, or does this mean that the whole shebang is essentially kaput? -
Meta, having renamed itself Meta and spending billions on it, is shutting down it's metaverse VR platform. https://www.theshortcut.com/p/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr-despite-investing-billions-into-the-metaverse
@GossiTheDog people will always have this biological and psychological need to connect, share stories and art. These companies try and replace that believing they can enslave biology, but always ultimately fail.
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Meta, having renamed itself Meta and spending billions on it, is shutting down it's metaverse VR platform. https://www.theshortcut.com/p/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr-despite-investing-billions-into-the-metaverse
@GossiTheDog for a second, I thought the first door was NTFS
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don't worry, all these orgs are also hyping GenAI as the next big thing.




Bitcoin, nft, VR, AI.
Seeing as all these things are not worthy of our time and effort to fight, but needing to die, I am happy to let Meta do the killing.
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@GossiTheDog for a second, I thought the first door was NTFS
@pjakobs @GossiTheDog Me too!

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don't worry, all these orgs are also hyping GenAI as the next big thing.




@GossiTheDog but this time it’ll be different!
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Meta, having renamed itself Meta and spending billions on it, is shutting down it's metaverse VR platform. https://www.theshortcut.com/p/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr-despite-investing-billions-into-the-metaverse
@GossiTheDog substack

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don't worry, all these orgs are also hyping GenAI as the next big thing.




@GossiTheDog I think my opinion on AI is fairly balanced. https://mastodon.online/@pmb00cs/116218263576211606
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don't worry, all these orgs are also hyping GenAI as the next big thing.




@GossiTheDog money != credibility. maybe we'll learn the lesson this time. probably not tho
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Meta, having renamed itself Meta and spending billions on it, is shutting down it's metaverse VR platform. https://www.theshortcut.com/p/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr-despite-investing-billions-into-the-metaverse
But, But, but....
This was to be the future, fashion shows, job applications, all would go through second li.....i mean Meta VR
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Meta, having renamed itself Meta and spending billions on it, is shutting down it's metaverse VR platform. https://www.theshortcut.com/p/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr-despite-investing-billions-into-the-metaverse
@GossiTheDog Oh no! Anyway...
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Meta, having renamed itself Meta and spending billions on it, is shutting down it's metaverse VR platform. https://www.theshortcut.com/p/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr-despite-investing-billions-into-the-metaverse
@GossiTheDog Honestly, as pessimistic as I was, "Meta" threw so much money and reputation at metaverse I honestly thought something permanent would come out of it even if it was still just a token executive toy VRML chat app just to keep the boss happy.
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Meta, having renamed itself Meta and spending billions on it, is shutting down it's metaverse VR platform. https://www.theshortcut.com/p/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr-despite-investing-billions-into-the-metaverse
@GossiTheDog they'll be redepositing the spending on ai I'm sure
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don't worry, all these orgs are also hyping GenAI as the next big thing.




When is everyone going to accept that Facebook/Zuckerberg didn't _create_ the next big thing in social media... He stumbled across it?
He _found_ it. He didn't _build_ it. He _monetized_ it, for certain. These things aren't the same, however.
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When is everyone going to accept that Facebook/Zuckerberg didn't _create_ the next big thing in social media... He stumbled across it?
He _found_ it. He didn't _build_ it. He _monetized_ it, for certain. These things aren't the same, however.
@401matthall the word create isn't in the thread anywhere