Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by mindgam3 » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 10:02 PM UTC

"Because everyone is going to be able to create their own... spaces... Horizon is going to have this property where it grows and expands and gets better and better over time." - Zuckerberg keynote (1)

In related news, a high-ranking Facebook exec revealed that Zuckerberg had been planning to name this massively multiplayer online experience "Myspace".

After heated internal discussions, Horizon was chosen as the brand name for Zuck's vision for "the future of computing", as, well, it seemed somewhat less played out.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOJ8KE5g6kg&t=45m01s

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by ajconway » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 10:24 PM UTC

kromem wrote: post #8

For a company with the resources FB has, it's remarkable how out of touch they are.

It looks like they’ve been doing pretty well in VR so far.

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by J5892 » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 11:01 PM UTC

xenospn wrote: post #3

Mixing Facebook trolls with VR sounds like a very, very bad idea.

It could never be worse than VR Chat.

(as far as trolls go, I mean. I love VR Chat)

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by princeb » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 11:39 PM UTC

second life gets a second wind

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by basch » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 11:42 PM UTC

kromem wrote: post #8

For a company with the resources FB has, it's remarkable how out of touch they are.

this is them moving on Microsoft/Minecraft. it makes some sense.

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by walrus01 » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 12:27 AM UTC

Here's hoping that nobody named Ted Faro is involved.

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by mark_l_watson » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 12:34 AM UTC

I love my Oculus Quest device and some of the experiences that you can buy for it are very compelling (eternal thanks to the developers of Vader Immortal) but, I just don’t see much fun in VR for huge numbers of participants.

I helped build a VR racing system at SAIC in the 1990s that had two units, each with full motion, haptics in steering wheel, and it’s own Reality Engine graphics display. Racing against one other person was lots of fun. I may be having a failure of imagination here, but I just think I would enjoy Horizon, as it is described.

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by heyitsguay » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 2:23 AM UTC

I'd love to see a decentralized version of this - VR instances run on individual or group-owned servers that perform the bulk of the environmental simulation and rendering for clients, and have some sort of intercommunication protocol. Once we have high-res environments and fluid UIs to use them, I really want to create my own virtual space, share it, and experience others' spaces, I just don't necessarily want Facebook controlling it.

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Post by MR4D » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 2:41 AM UTC

So, Facebook finally read “Snow Crash”, I see.

The Black Sun comes to life!

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 3:32 AM UTC

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