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davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago

Meta shuts down Metaverse after $80 billion loss, ends Horizon Worlds era

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davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago
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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    10 hours ago

    Did anyone even think about this once while not reading news stories about it?

  • TwilitSky@lemmy.world
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    Remember when everyone made fun of Second Life? Now the people who made it don’t need to feel embarrassed anymore because at least they weren’t involved in Metaverse. If you were involved with both, there’s no salvation left.

  • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I think it’s hilarious that the entire press and Meta are both like “ope, people don’t want to hang out in VR”.

    furries continue to hang out in VR chat

    • HubertManne@piefed.social
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      I think its hilarious they are called meta. they will never be able to get away from their shame.

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    Slop ai header image to talk about the slop company. Ai use is so embarrassing

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    Those lobsters should have top hats and monocles.

    • TwilitSky@lemmy.world
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      Not everything has to be so realistic.

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    And now they’re not shutting it down after all. :D

    • EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      21 hours ago

      lol wtf

    • GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip
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      bummer

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    It doesn’t matter now. All those idiots who wrote books about how good the mataverse was, how it was going to change our lives, how we will be able to talk to costumer support in a virtual office from our house… all those people who wrote about it did the leap to talk about AI and now are writing about how good AI is… goshhhh

    • ActualCommunistLearning@lemmy.world
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      can’t wait for current AI hype bubble to burst. Not neccesarily have AI stop being relevant, just have it stop being forced into everything.

  • Patrikvo@lemmy.zip
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    The Metaverse cycle:

    10 Some article remind me it exist;

    20 I shrug and continue not to care about the Metaverse;

    30 I forget about the existance of the Metaverse;

    40 Some amount of time passes;

    50 GOTO 10.

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    22 hours ago

    Are they going to rebrand to Slop now to follow the latest trend?

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    We have had Meta headsets for a couple years. Still don’t know what the “metaverse” is. The headsets are fun, though.

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    They could have cured homelessness 4x over. But instead we got crappy little Zuck-like avatars and an ecosystem nobody ever asked for or wanted.

    Fuck this world man.

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      Yes, but have you considered that you can simply buy a house on the Metaverse?

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      The world is okay, it’s billionaires and stupidity that’s the problem

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    Not only was the entire project thing a completely repulsive, uncanny mess, but also they could’ve just bought roblox for half that amount which is effectively the closest thing to a “metaverse” but ig zuck ego wouldn’t allow that

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    No surprise

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    ahh the schadenfreude… 😈

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    motherfuckers could probably have ended hunger in their country for that kind of money.

    that’s how much of a piece of shit this pedophile nazi is.

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      I think that would end all poverty in the entire world

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