Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’ • Hacker News Board

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by PragmaticPulp » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

ve55 wrote: post #69

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'm surprised how negative the comments here are

Honest discussion about Facebook on tech-centric forums is nearly impossible these days. Facebook and Zuckerberg are favorite villains in the tech discourse in 2021. I don't agree with everything Facebook has done, but the vitriol directed at Facebook has become so disconnected from reality that it's getting hard to take it seriously.

> this still does seem like a very well thought-out and aggressive long-term mission that is worthy of being pursued,

I agree. Once you get past the anti-Facebook hyperbole, it's interesting to read about where they're headed next. They have a lot of excellent engineers and a lot of revenue, so I'll be keeping an eye on where they invest their R&D spend.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by dang » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

Url changed from https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/fa..., which points to this.

There was also:

Zuckerberg on why the social network is becoming ‘a metaverse company’ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27921327 - July 2021 (15 comments)

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by shmerl » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

On the way to Virtuaverse's¹ idea of permanent reality?

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1. https://www.gog.com/game/virtuaverse

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by egypturnash » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

yeah, sure, Mark, I'll believe in this "unprecedented interoperability" when I can follow someone on Facebook using an open standard like RSS without having an account, and when I can have my personal Wordpress site auto-post to my personal Facebook account.

I'll believe in this "unprecedented interoperability" when you're not constantly trying to get me to pay a ransom to have my posts shown to people who have said they wanna follow me, either.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by croes » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

ve55 wrote: post #69

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…

The problem is what is the premise of this metaverse. I will be data collection for FBs core business. Imagine something like Horizon for Oculus in big, a virtual world observed and controlled by FB. Before Sky Net we will get the Matrix.

https://pic.clubic.com/v1/images/1236090/raw

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by Apocryphon » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #117

ve55 wrote: post #69

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…

The Google Graveyard gets all the attention but Facebook has built and retired more clones of existing products and attempts to break into other people's moats than anyone can remember.

Investing in "metaverse" is just ticking a sub-category box after they've already ticked off "VR" with their Oculus acquisition. It's doubtful that all the money they have to burn on this boondoggle will actually go anywhere.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by jamal-kumar » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

JohnFen wrote: post #90

verytrivial wrote: post #70

LOL. No. A week or so ago I unfriended every one of my 'friends' on Facebook, many there since 2007. I'm now just squatting my own identity for the handful of community and sports clubs that use Facebook as a bulletin board. These people are 'acquaintances', I know most of them by sight, but don't see what they're having for breakfast or when their baby does something amazing. So, basically neighbours in a village. I…

> I realised I did not want to be the reason people were using Facebook I gave up my Facebook account about a decade ago. Not for this reasons (although I very much agree with it), but because I realized that I wasn't using it. Friends and family would try to communicate with me over it, and they wouldn't get a response because I wasn't looking. A lot of them thought I was ignoring them, so I figured it was better to…

I was recently forwarded a big comment thread from a while ago on that site where a bunch of people I haven't talked to for like 5-8 years were figuring I blocked them when really I just deleted my account a long while back¸ which was pretty funny.

I didn't bother reaching out to correct this at all. I think I value the ability to keep people who think their time is best spent staring into nightmare rectangles and pretty much just gossiping their way into hell experience out of my life, and the people who aren't into that as much in.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by recursive » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:58 PM UTC

tengbretson wrote: post #132

munk-a wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I loathe Facebook - but trying to say Mark Zuckerberg is an idiot at this point is pretty hilarious. A bachelor's level of academic training is essentially irrelevant by the time you're thirty - a master's by the time you're thirty five. Academic credentials are a very silly thing to get out the rulers over.

If he's so clever then why hasn't he figured out how to have neighbors that don't hate him?

Because he was clever enough to realize that it didn't matter.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by flenserboy » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:59 PM UTC

Glad for my trusty HOSTS file.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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Post by hypertele-Xii » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:59 PM UTC

TeeMassive wrote: post #136

That's one hell of a way to brand "extending the tentacles of our monopoly into your daily life". > Mr Zuckerberg has made such comments before, hypothesizing that humans should “be teleporting, not transporting ourselves” into various environments through virtual and mixed reality environments. "You will live in a pod and you will be happy with VR"

Oh I'd love to live in a VR pod, just not a Facebook brand one.