I want off this ride.
Facebook Renames to Meta
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#172MAANG just doesn't roll off the tongue as well
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#173The presentation talks a lot about the metaverse being built on open standards and protocols but it still seems extremely vague Have they actually detailed this anywhere? For example a most basic question: what 3D engine is this going to run on? Is that engine open source? What are the formats for assets/models/materials? What blockchain is hosting the NFT assets?
If Meta really does a good job of separating the open standards from their close products then this could actually be an exciting development, as unfashionable as it may be right now to be excited about anything Facebook is doing.
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#174If 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…
Our version of a persistent virtual space was never going to be like fiction. There will be 3 or more competing metaverses, none of which have any interoperability.
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#175My 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 think their internal definition of metaverse is probably less literal than people in the media seem to picture - I think they are actually betting on the future of however people communicate, whatever that ends up looking like, be that WhatsApp, social media, VR or something else entirely.
Even their presentation showed that with a solid mix of different ways of communicating and I'm pretty sure that wasn't just accidental. On one level its nice to see a much more expansive definition of metaverse (which IMO already exists) but on another terrifying that FB wants to be part of basically every human interaction.
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#176On one hand I’m not a big fan of Facebook But it is pretty amazing to have so much money and focus being thrown behind VR/AR There are a ton of problems that need to be solved in that space: graphics/geometry algorithms, image processing, hardware, interface/IO, neural stuff
There are a ton of problems that need to be solved in that space: graphics/geometry algorithms, image processing, hardware, interface/IO,
...advertising, spying, tracking, tabulating, monetizing, engaging, profiting, controlling...
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#179My 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.
Not a chance. I've been wrong about a lot of things tech, probably even most things, but this isn't something I think most people want.
Metaverses have always been niche. Most people don't like things attached to their head. Remember 3D TVs?
But, perhaps you and they are right. For the first time in my life, I honestly feel like 'if this is the future, I want no part in it.' Please don't take this as like, suicidal or anything, more maybe going off grid or moving to another country.
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#180My 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.
We can call them whatever we want to. Fuck them for trying to take over both "meta" and "metaverse." This is them trying to become _the_ VR world just by having _the right name_.
I don't know anyone that calls "xfinity" anything but "comcast." I'm pretty sure "xfinity" was them trying to get away from their nickname "comcrap."
Imagine if the world collectively said "no" and kept right on calling them Facebook?
They're going to run around slapping anyone who uses "meta" or "metaverse" with C&D letters figuring nobody will have the money to fight them in court.
I'd chip in to the legal fund for whoever says "see you in court" to Facebook. I bet a lot of people would. Maybe someone like the EFF should set up a "meta defense" warchest.