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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

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

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Post by Geee »

DickingAround wrote: post #157
tharne wrote: post #134

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Right on. I quit Facebook about 2 years ago for the exact same reason and never looked back. I think you're on to something here. Network effects work both ways. If each new user on a platform compounds it's utility and desirability, then the reverse is also true. This means even a relatively small, but non-trivial, number of people shunning Facebook can drastically reduce it's desirability and power. I saw a little…

The 'intolerant minority' is a very interesting and surprisingly useful concept.

Also, the union of different intolerant minorities results in very little tolerance for anything.

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Post by 83457 »

tkiolp4 wrote: post #317
tablespoon wrote: post #284

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> 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 oran…

You are responding to a silly comment. With that said, I think straight black hair often implies non-european ancestry. I'd just assume main woman is Spanish, one in white is Asian. The non-black males are all pretty ambiguous (shrug)

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Post by 83457 »

Animats wrote: post #274
giobox wrote: post #187

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VR/AR is such a new paradigm for interacting with computers I think that its inevitable companies will make many failures before finding the apps and hardware that clicks with customers. In 2017, we had only had mainstream non-beta VR headset hardware in the marketplace since 2016 (original consumer Rift, HTC Vive), lets not forget the 20 years of PDA hardware/software attempts we lived through before the mainstream…

VR/AR is such a new paradigm for interacting with computers. Not really. I tried Jaron Lainer's original VR rig back in the 1980s. The Autodesk system from the 1980s. The W Industries system ... the HTC Vibe. The Microsoft HoloLens. There's been progress, but usability really hasn't improved all that much. You can shoot at people. That works fine. You can sort of use swords. Everything else, not so much. That's why B…

The most useful thing you'll probably ever be able to do in it will probably be using a web browser and software on a virtual computer in a virtual environment. Essentially just making certain interactions virtual but stay the same.

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

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Post by livinginfear »

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…

The comments on the video reassure me that I'm not alone in thinking that a 'safe space' in a virtual world is a totally schizophrenic idea.

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Post by livinginfear »

tomashertus wrote: post #320
tablespoon wrote: post #284

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> 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.…

What an utterly vile quote. I've never seen his comedy before. After reading that, I'll make sure I never do.

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Post by chillwaves »

livinginfear wrote: post #335
tomashertus wrote: post #320

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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.…

What an utterly vile quote. I've never seen his comedy before. After reading that, I'll make sure I never do.

Maybe you could use a safe space?

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Post by weare138 »

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…

It's just bullshit marketing for a pause button and a standard reporting feature almost all social sites and apps have already so they can claim they're doing something the next time Zuck gets dragged in to testify again. It's just going to be a absolute shitshow like Facebook.

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

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…

> https://youtu.be/Uf_9J_EdzZw

I don't know why the no legs thing seems so incredibly frightening to me. It's like a really bad "uncanny valley" feeling - everyone walking around, chatting normally, but seeming to not realize they've all been sawed in half.

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