So "Ready Player One" with Zuck in charge? No thank you.
With Oculus, IG and FB, they seem pretty close to being the ones to pull it off.
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
>>> "“I think [it] is 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”, Mr Zuckerberg also said. One of the benefits of this ecosystem would be that, “if you go back 20 or 30 years, a lot of people’s individual opportunities and experience was dictated by their physical proximity”, and that easy movement through a virtual…
And by Black Mirror game I assume you mean creating a dystopian hellscape and not some interactive TV thing.
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#23Does he really believe his own bullshit? I mean, I realize FB is literally the internet in some countries, but that's because they are essentially the only water in the desert so to speak. FB needs competition, badly.
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#24Metaverse seems like the new buzzword for the VC companies. Nowadays everyone is building metaverse type games just because of Roblox but reality is it is a limited market with high competition and only few players are interested about such games.
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#25Ive pitched metaverse style training systems to the department of education for example. There is a lot of really good progress to be had in the space.
If done right, a good metaverse will be the next WoW. Thats billions of dollars. Im not surprised facebook is doing this, Im surprised they all didnt start their own metaverse programs much sooner...
The race is on, may the best win.
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#26Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’
#27Does he really believe his own bullshit? I mean, I realize FB is literally the internet in some countries, but that's because they are essentially the only water in the desert so to speak. FB needs competition, badly.
In which countries FB is the only Internet?
Re: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’
#28Does he really believe his own bullshit? I mean, I realize FB is literally the internet in some countries, but that's because they are essentially the only water in the desert so to speak. FB needs competition, badly.
In which countries FB is the only Internet?
Therefore, it becomes the "only" Internet.
They even have cases of piracy movies being shared/available within theses sites.
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#29Metaverse seems like the new buzzword for the VC companies. Nowadays everyone is building metaverse type games just because of Roblox but reality is it is a limited market with high competition and only few players are interested about such games.
Yet again it’s the old jwz point of people focusing on the irrelevant tech details of why something’s successful. Roblox isn’t successful because it’s a ‘metaverse’, it’s successful because it’s got a crapload of games that shut my kids up.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
And not: