Meta is backtracking on its plans to shut down the VR version of its metaverse. The company now plans to support Horizon Worlds in VR for the “foreseeable future,” though users shouldn’t expect new games, CTO Andrew Bosworth said in an update.
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Truly a sad day for no one in particular.
It’ll be a sad day for the people who lose their jobs because some idiot wasted colossal amounts of money on a delusional dream. Then again it was their choice to work for one of the most evil companies on the planet, so I don’t really pity them.
glad they’re finally realizing the metaverse is bullshit. the term came from early cyberpunk (genre, not franchise) media to describe the internet as we know it before it was invented and properly named.
Is that where my friend wanted me to buy “real estate” a few years ago? He said he had gotten $200,000 invested and was going to retire once he sold… I suppose we are back to the original plan now, “Chick-Fil-A Chef Until 75”
Wait you actually know someone that fell for that? That’s nuts. I know they planned to monetize digital real estate before the metaverse even existed but I didn’t realize it actually happened.
Motherfuckers even named their company after their useless hype product and then 5 years later just quietly kill it. Peak billionaire behaviour
It’s like tattooing your new girlfriend’s name on your ass.
More like tattooing that name on your face.
We taking bets on the next rebrand name?
It was “Meta”, but now they’re going all-in on AI, so they’ll probably want to go “MetAI” except that it’s lame and so are all the other various portmanteaus, so they’ll pivot to something inexplicable and wild like “Everything” or “AllAI”
Molt
I’m going to guess they’ll keep it and justify it as “metadata”. Like the metadata of it’s users that it sells
AI
Well, by induction since the last hype was the “metaverse” and they rebranded to Meta, so because now the hype is “AI” they’ll rebrand to A, or maybe Artificial.
Q.E.D.
Dead Internet Company
Nothing But Bots ™️
AI
I can call you Meta, and Meta you can call me AI. Call me AI.
How do you spend billions of dollars and not produce any content anyone wants? What were those thousands of man-hours spent doing?
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All “AI-first” companies will do this too in 2 years.
Any half decent company would fire its CEO after that disaster.
