Metaverse seems like the new buzzword for the VC companies. Nowadays everyone is building metaverse type games just because of Roblox but reality is it is a limited market with high competition and only few players are interested about such games.
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’
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#12Does he really believe his own bullshit? I mean, I realize FB is literally the internet in some countries, but that's because they are essentially the only water in the desert so to speak. FB needs competition, badly.
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#13So "Ready Player One" with Zuck in charge? No thank you.
With Oculus, IG and FB, they seem pretty close to being the ones to pull it off.
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#14Another way of saying this is "Ad Company wants to be present during every part of your life (and all those pesky non-Ad Company users they can't currently reach), so they can surveil and monetize your entire existence, finally completing the panopticon."
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#15So "Ready Player One" with Zuck in charge? No thank you.
By the time the film came out it was already a dated future.
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#16>> “A good vision for the metaverse is not one that a specific company builds, but it has to have the sense of interoperability and portability”, Mr Zuckerberg said, adding that there should be protocols like the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) internet standards for defining how experiences will be built. Except defined by Facebook, so not really anything like W3C.
oh man. there have been at least three efforts i'm aware of to standardize the metaverse in the last 30 years. none of them really went anywhere. fb was invited to participate in the last one i paid attention to (VWRAP), but they politely declined.
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#17I don't feel like clicking on this... are they getting into the quantum hype game?
>>> "“I think [it] is probably going to resemble some kind of a hybrid between the social platforms that we see today, but an environment where you’re embodied in it”, Mr Zuckerberg also said. One of the benefits of this ecosystem would be that, “if you go back 20 or 30 years, a lot of people’s individual opportunities and experience was dictated by their physical proximity”, and that easy movement through a virtual…
Oh, good, the real problem with social media has always been relegated to electronic devices. What we really need is enragement metrics for meatspace
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#18Marketing droid: "We're not a social media company, we're a metaverse company" Normal person: What does that mean? Marketing droid: "The metaverse does not have a specific definition"
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#19I don't feel like clicking on this... are they getting into the quantum hype game?
>>> "“I think [it] is probably going to resemble some kind of a hybrid between the social platforms that we see today, but an environment where you’re embodied in it”, Mr Zuckerberg also said. One of the benefits of this ecosystem would be that, “if you go back 20 or 30 years, a lot of people’s individual opportunities and experience was dictated by their physical proximity”, and that easy movement through a virtual…
And by Black Mirror game I assume you mean creating a dystopian hellscape and not some interactive TV thing.
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#20Mark "Da5id" Zuckerberg. Mind the cheesy bitmapped scrolls, please!