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

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Post by nanidin »

Niglodonicus wrote: post #154
cblconfederate wrote: post #108

> 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/

Serious question regarding my flagged comment in this thread since I'm new here: What's wrong with it? Is it not ok to express that I feel a phenomenon is sad? Did I need to go into more detail about how the phenomenon arose? Is criticism of capitalism or our societal systems unacceptable?

My thoughts: your username starts the same as a very culturally sensitive word for USA. You come in and leave a short comment that does not really contribute to the discussion, just brings about negativity. That's kind of like running up to someone and punching them, then running away. Not cool - you should engage in rational discourse rather than snipe. Fight, but fight fairly. You have a green username (new)?

People see things like this and think, "Troll", hence the flagging. I did not flag or downvote in this case, as I came across it hours after it already occurred.

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

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Post by moogly »

baby wrote: post #303
moogly wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What is driving him? Megalomania. His 2017 "manifesto" made that rather clear to me. In it, he came off as trying to sound like the president of the world. I think that was also the year he spent time traveling the US states "to meet real folk".

You want him to stay in his ivory tower instead?

You have a point, but nevertheless it was reminiscent of some kind of campaigning.

Not sure where I want him for him to make the least damage to society. Maybe on the first manned rocket to Mars?

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Post by mrighele »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #211
Animats wrote: post #175

Facebook has so far tried, and failed, to do this. Twice. First was Facebook Spaces. Opened 2017, closed 2019. This was a VR world. Not a very good one. It was mostly a 3D approach to a desktop.[1] You could hand other people flat pictures. Sharing! Total flop. Second was Facebook Horizon. Opened 2020, still running, but not getting much attention. It's a 3D cartoon level VR world. Works OK, not very interesting or p…

I love Hyperreality, and I can't wait for it to come true. I think my world would be much better. Look at how cool it is! I get that it's not for everyone, but sign me up.

I you talk about hyperreality I think you were referring to this (1) video, but given the downvotes you received I guess not many people got the reference

(1) https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs

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Post by andybak »

pteraspidomorph wrote: post #301
Animats wrote: post #175

Facebook has so far tried, and failed, to do this. Twice. First was Facebook Spaces. Opened 2017, closed 2019. This was a VR world. Not a very good one. It was mostly a 3D approach to a desktop.[1] You could hand other people flat pictures. Sharing! Total flop. Second was Facebook Horizon. Opened 2020, still running, but not getting much attention. It's a 3D cartoon level VR world. Works OK, not very interesting or p…

> Avatars have no legs; nothing below the waistline This is the biggest mistake a lot of VR developers made and are still making. People want to look cool in VR. They don't want to look like flying blobs (unless that's their actual chosen aesthetic). This affects their platform and purchase choices to a degree that many don't seem to fully comprehend.

My feeling is that no IK is better than bad IK. I'd rather be a groovy head and hands than a creepy full body.

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Post by tkiolp4 »

tablespoon wrote: post #284
Animats wrote: post #175

Facebook has so far tried, and failed, to do this. Twice. First was Facebook Spaces. Opened 2017, closed 2019. This was a VR world. Not a very good one. It was mostly a 3D approach to a desktop.[1] You could hand other people flat pictures. Sharing! Total flop. Second was Facebook Horizon. Opened 2020, still running, but not getting much attention. It's a 3D cartoon level VR world. Works OK, not very interesting or p…

> Plus there's a panic button which puts you in a "personal safe zone", where you're in a bubble until Security gets there to rescue you from whomever is annoying you. While it's still running, Facebook doesn't mention Horizon any more. > [2] https://youtu.be/Uf_9J_EdzZw That video is kind of amazing. It's all people of color, until one white guy shows up and immediately gets blocked. Also, all their safety team can…

Umm, I’m not American so bear with me:

- the lady in blue, she looks like a white person after having sun in the beach

- the guy with purple tshirt, he looks readhead, so white

- the guy with white hat and black hoodie looks south American

- the guy with glasses and red jacket, looks black

- the ladies with white tshirt, look white

- the lady with glasses and brown tshirt, looks white

- the guy with grey hat and orange hoodie looks white

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

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Post by astlouis44 »

Animats wrote: post #175

Facebook has so far tried, and failed, to do this. Twice. First was Facebook Spaces. Opened 2017, closed 2019. This was a VR world. Not a very good one. It was mostly a 3D approach to a desktop.[1] You could hand other people flat pictures. Sharing! Total flop. Second was Facebook Horizon. Opened 2020, still running, but not getting much attention. It's a 3D cartoon level VR world. Works OK, not very interesting or p…

Check out vrland! It's a social 3D/VR metaverse platform on the web. Decentralized and works everywhere including VR headsets via WebXR.

Link to the platform: https://vrland.io/lobby

Link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/cNfG834

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

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Post by tomashertus »

tablespoon wrote: post #284
Animats wrote: post #175

Facebook has so far tried, and failed, to do this. Twice. First was Facebook Spaces. Opened 2017, closed 2019. This was a VR world. Not a very good one. It was mostly a 3D approach to a desktop.[1] You could hand other people flat pictures. Sharing! Total flop. Second was Facebook Horizon. Opened 2020, still running, but not getting much attention. It's a 3D cartoon level VR world. Works OK, not very interesting or p…

> Plus there's a panic button which puts you in a "personal safe zone", where you're in a bubble until Security gets there to rescue you from whomever is annoying you. While it's still running, Facebook doesn't mention Horizon any more. > [2] https://youtu.be/Uf_9J_EdzZw That video is kind of amazing. It's all people of color, until one white guy shows up and immediately gets blocked. Also, all their safety team can…

That's amazing, first think which came to my mind was:

> I can go to any time--in the past. I don't want to go to the future and find out what happens to white people because we're gonna pay hard for this shit, you got to know that. We're not going to just fall from number one to two. They're gonna hold us down and fuck us in the ass forever. And we totally deserve it. But for now, wheeeeeeee!

Source: https://genius.com/Louis-ck-on-being-white-annotated

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