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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse

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Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse

www.cnbc.com

return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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Meta is scaling back its metaverse focus, cutting studios and head count at Reality Labs to prioritize artificial intelligence.
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    deleted by creator

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      We taking bets on the next rebrand name?

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        AI

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        I’m going to guess they’ll keep it and justify it as “metadata”. Like the metadata of it’s users that it sells

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        Nothing But Bots ™️

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        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”

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        AI

        I can call you Meta, and Meta you can call me AI. Call me AI.

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        Dead Internet Company

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          It’s not dead. I have elderly relatives who still use it.

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        deleted by creator

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        Meatverse?

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          Slathered in sweet baby rays bbq sauce.

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      It’s like tattooing your new girlfriend’s name on your ass.

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        More like tattooing that name on your face.

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          More like tattooing her ass on your face, and everyone in the bar nodding and saying “Been there, won’t be going back.”

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        “Hi im <girlfriends name>'s boyfriend. No no that is my legal name.” Behavoir

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    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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      ✊💦

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    Any half decent company would fire its CEO after that disaster.

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    Truly a sad day for no one in particular.

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      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.

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        Tbf they wouldn’t have even got their jobs if it weren’t for the delusional dream

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    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”

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      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.

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    All “AI-first” companies will do this too in 2 years.

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    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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      https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/meta-decides-not-to-shut-down-horizon-worlds-on-vr-after-all/

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    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.

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    No do the same with the unwanted AI shit.

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