https://www.techspot.com/news/93055-meta-patents-hint-metaverse-advertising-uses-eye-tracking.html
Debbie's getting the feeling that the metaverse is going to flop. Yours?
Quote from: Drastic on January 21, 2022, 12:37:54 PM
Debbie's getting the feeling that the metaverse is going to flop. Yours?
Agreed. Big time flop.
>Debbie
ditto
PlayStation Creator Calls VR Headsets 'Annoying', and 'Can't See the Point' of the Metaverse
https://www.ign.com/articles/playstation-creator-calls-vr-headsets-annoying-cant-see-the-point-metaverse
The tech is coming along, but nowhere near joe consumer readiness yet, imo.
>>Debbie
>ditto
Yeah. I don't think anybody wants to hang out in a VR world run by facebook. The notion seems quite dystopian to me.
I've seen the metaverse – and I don't want it | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/jan/25/ive-seen-the-metaverse-and-i-dont-want-it
https://kotaku.com/facebook-metaverse-horizon-worlds-vr-oculus-quest-2-cha-1848436740
Another brief look.
Good article. I watched a video of a person who was trying to monetize the metavers. It looks a lot like Roblox to me too, but with a lot of lemonade stands.
>flop
Big Tech Needs to Stop Trying to Make Their Metaverse Happen | WIRED UK
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/metaverse-big-tech-land-grab-hype
>metaverse is going to flop.
In the near term, I agree. But:
50 years from now, it'll be an amazing escape from reality.
100 years from now, it'll be our default experience.
200 years from now, we live in the matrix.
>flop
Microsoft has reportedly killed its plans for the HoloLens 3 | Engadget
https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-reportedly-killed-plans-for-hololens-3-080308825.html
"Analysts attributed the meltdown to several factors: struggles to attract young users, competition from TikTok, Apple's new privacy changes, and the metaverse."
Behind the numbers: Meta's nightmare on Wall Street
https://thenextweb.com/news/numbers-behind-meta-stock-market-crash-facebook-metaverse
>In the near term, I agree. But...
Do you mean VR or Zuckerberg's platform? Oh, I think VR and AR will continue to grow and improve, I just don't think this is it. Zuckerberg is not a genius, he just happened to launch FB at a time when Murdoch caused MySpace to implode.
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-metaverse-q4-zuckerberg-old-idea-never-worked-phil-libin-2022-2
QuoteIn its fourth quarter earnings report Wednesday, Meta said its new metaverse business lost $10 billion and its user base shrank for the first time in its history. Meta stock plummeted 26.4% Thursday, erasing nearly $240 billion from the company's valuation in the largest one-day wipeout in US corporate history.
Zuckerberg coldly explains to Facebook staff they are now to be known as "Metamates" (https://boingboing.net/2022/02/15/zuckerberg-coldly-explains-to-facebook-staff-they-are-now-to-be-known-as-metamates.html)
If someone is going to call me "metamate" I'd want a pay raise. hhh
>>pay raise
When her kids were young, my sister had a part-time job at The Gap. They insisted that everyone do this weird Gap Cheer thing with a funky body movement and such to start the day. She just looked at the manager, who was much younger, and said: "Look, I will show up on time and be a good worker, but I was a teenager in the 1960s. We don't do company cheers. It's not negotiable."
A chain ice cream parlor opened in town a few years ago. I went in. I was the only customer. As the two employees made my order one prompted the other and they started singing some sort of corporate fake cheerful ice cream song. It just felt awkward. I now know why I was the only customer. I never went back.
Mark Cuban says buying virtual real estate is 'the dumbest shit ever' as metaverse hype appears to be fading (https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-buying-metaverse-land-dumbest-shit-ever-2022-8)