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Personally, I didn't want to soil Snow Crash by associating it in any way with Facebook.
Why? Isn’t Snow Crash is a dystopian cyberpunk novel where corporations have superseded governments?
> 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 Opensimulator (the open source version of second life server) already exists, it is decentralized, self-hosted, and a few thousands of people re already living in it : https://opensimworld.com/
Mr. Zuckerberg doesn’t understand the word “embodied”
The Verge podcast[0] where Zuck made this comment was quite revealing. Without naming Apple specifically, Zuck managed to communicate an intense fear that Facebook would be locked out of Apple's upcoming AR platform. Is the 'metaverse' inevitable? Or is it merely sci-fi wishful thinking? If 'interoperability' and 'decentralization' means that you can't avoid targeted advertising, I'll pass. [0]: https://www.theverge.…
Zuck and Apple both recognize this and are both working on it.
The winner will be similar to an iPhone level win in terms of shift, it’s hard to know how close viable hardware is though.
The Verge podcast[0] where Zuck made this comment was quite revealing. Without naming Apple specifically, Zuck managed to communicate an intense fear that Facebook would be locked out of Apple's upcoming AR platform. Is the 'metaverse' inevitable? Or is it merely sci-fi wishful thinking? If 'interoperability' and 'decentralization' means that you can't avoid targeted advertising, I'll pass. [0]: https://www.theverge.…
Imagine being able to say random stuff like this and getting rich off it as the stock market reacts. Must be nice.
Index funds are so convenient but Facebook is in the top 10 holdings of Fidelity’s 500. It makes me very uneasy. Is there an index fund that one can opt out of certain companies. And reading through the companies on several of the main fidelity index funds, there’s too many fissile fuel and tobacco companies for my taste.
I'm surprised how negative the comments here are, even if it is true that 'metaverse' is turning into a pretty silly buzzword. I think there's still coherent concepts defined by it (interfaces becoming much more inline with what humans find natural, integration of VR+AR capabilities, and the 'Internet' becoming more and more 'real life' in general). Facebook is absolutely one of the best-positioned companies to be ab…
I get the feeling that it's all going to look immensely stupid until Apple releases a VR headset, and Facebook is the first company with a native client on it. From there, this "metaverse" concept introduces a virtually limitless amount of content. They could start porting over original VR titles, creating first-class video sharing tools and more. I despise Facebook, but I wholeheartedly agree here: this is an incred…
Does 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.
This is like calling a blockchain “decentralized” How is it a metaverse if there’s only one canonical environment hosted at Facebook.com?
The Verge podcast[0] where Zuck made this comment was quite revealing. Without naming Apple specifically, Zuck managed to communicate an intense fear that Facebook would be locked out of Apple's upcoming AR platform. Is the 'metaverse' inevitable? Or is it merely sci-fi wishful thinking? If 'interoperability' and 'decentralization' means that you can't avoid targeted advertising, I'll pass. [0]: https://www.theverge.…