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Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by Kye »

bduerst wrote: post #105
daviding wrote: post #36

If there is going to be a metaverse, I'm not sure I want Facebook to own it. It's like a bad sci-fi pulp story. Given their investment and research, I wonder if they should open it all up (even if contradictory to short-term gains in ad revenue) so it has a chance to grow? Federate it a bit more than they are comfortable with, to at least give it a chance. I could see this flubbing out hard otherwise. I'm personally…

I thought the market has repeatedly shown there isn't much demand for persistent virtual worlds?

VRChat seems to have landed on something close to the right balance of whatever it takes to make it happen. It's apparently easy enough for someone to make a whole meme world for an event in the news in time for it to be relevant: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/11/9/21557029/four-season...

The video in the initial tweet is up to 2.1 million views: https://twitter.com/thecoopertom/status/1325710953305026560?...

VRChat or someone building on their proof of concept is likely to make it happen. It won't be Facebook with its VR Slack.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by pazimzadeh »

avsbst wrote: post #78
specialp wrote: post #33

The choice of "Meta" is very interesting. Chan-Zuckerberg started a project called "Meta" to increase the dissemination of science. This was a project going on for a while now [1] What does this mean for that? https://sociable.co/science/aaron-swartz-chan-zuckerberg-met...

They started the process of shuttering it ~6 months ago. My partner worked there for ~3 years. Despite meeting all their metrics for user growth and activity it was a decision that came out of the blue. Guess we know why though? Can't have it conflicting with the brand. I remember that two weeks before the decision came down, and she and her team got blindsided, she told me how a bioeng researcher emailed her telling…

Looks like it's still up? https://www.meta.org/

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by davidw »

If they really wanted to do something useful for the world, they could eliminate comments on local media outlet stories. The people there, as Obi-Wan Kenobi put it, are a "hive of scum and villainy".

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by mempko »

losvedir wrote: post #35

I suspect we will be awash in critical comments shortly, so let me just say I'm kind of excited about this. Don't forget that the internet was originally a military project. I'm excited to see a huge corporation going all in on VR and AR. It has the potential to be really interesting technology, and the research in displays, sensors, and other hardware and software won't go to waste. If "Meta" is the new ARPANET, I w…

Google is the AT&T of the internet. Meta is the AT&T of the metaverse. In modern times, there is no CERN. Just AT&T.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by distrill »

goatlover wrote: post #104
czottmann wrote: post #29

Still a terrible, terrible organisation that's detrimental to societies and humankind as such.

Is it FB or social media and big tech in general? I'm confused by the laser focus on FB all of a sudden.

I don't think it's particularly sudden, although I am also confused by the laser focus.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by deelowe »

nyt-maps wrote: post #19

My god, if you get it, you get it. They are going all in on metaverse / have decided that the future of oculus is the primary long term bet, not facebook itself. And they have the money to make it so. This is incredibly scary, and probably a good investment.

I hope they have serious plans for changing how VR works today. VR quickly loses it's appeal after a few hours. The isolation it brings with it is a huge issue. AR holds more promise in terms of mass appeal but I'm not sure we have that one quite figured out yet technically and from a UX perspective.
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