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Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by darthvoldemort »

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.

Maybe I'm too old, but I don't know a single person with Oculus, not even among my younger coworkers.

I don't discount that it could be the next big thing, because wtf do I know, but it feels very niche to me, and certainly not something that can get the engagement like a phone can. And in terms of money, Facebook itself is a printing press, I wonder what the business model is for this? Selling games or experiences? Billboards in an AR world?

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by MBCook »

TillE wrote: post #79

I don't understand what Facebook is even doing in terms of a metaverse. Like they have the VR goggles, but what are they actually doing with it? Coincidentally, MMO developer Raph Koster (Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies) has recently been detailing in a series of articles what his new company is doing in terms of building a metaverse, and it's pretty exciting in gaming terms. https://www.playableworlds.com/news/rif…

They’re getting investor money. So far that seems to be it.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by mrkramer »

Metaverse in a sense of VR, AR? Just like Google wasn't the first search engine or Iphone the first smartphone someone else will dominate VR and AR someone else will make that big innovation and killer apps not Facebook. Facebook is big and old. Big Blue just like IBM.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by minimaxir »

danso wrote: post #139

I was curious what meta.com looked like before FB took control of the domain. Recent snapshots aren't loading for me, but post-2015 it looks like it was taken over by an AI company — the page titles include "Meta — Science Discovered" [0] and "Meta — AI for Science". Prior to that, since around 2012 it was an unused Wordpress site [1] that redirected to meta.compgu.com (which is now "tekman.cc", a consulting firm or…

Before now, https://meta.com redirected to https://www.meta.org/ which is owned by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; now, there's a banner saying it will be sunset next March.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by swalsh »

vineyardmike wrote: post #158
swalsh wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There needs to be many metaverses, and NFT's should be able to be shared between them. It's dangerous to think about the prospect of a major company like Facebook (Or a DAO for that matter) locking up the entire universe.

Why NFT? Why can't we just "import jpeg" instead of "link NFT"?

NFT's let you own digital assets. That means people can make a real living building them.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by nabla9 »

minimaxir wrote: post #2

The rebrand was introduced as a "One More Thing" during the event keynote. A 2007 "One More Thing" was the announcement of the iPhone and the future of mobile computing. Now a 2021 "One More Thing" is the announcement of a company rebrand to avoid government regulation.

I think you remember wrong. iPhone was not one more thing announcement. In 2007 One more thing was Safari for Windows.

Here is list: https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/one-more-thing-3793072/

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by ritchiea »

7373737373 wrote: post #161
brap wrote: post #125

The video they put out is extremely cringe. The whole “metaverse” thing is cringe. It makes me believe Zuckerberg is completely surrounded by yes-men who never challenge him and only tell him what he likes to hear. He is truly detached from us normal people and our human experience.

I wish he'd just present as his awkward true self, instead of this prerecorded, fake cringefest, something Musk doesn't shy away from

He’s certainly determined whatever his true self is, it’s not good for business.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by kixiQu »

dekhn wrote: post #68
tasogare wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In France it's GAFAM that is most used, which makes sense since Microsoft is way more influential on the tech scene than Netflix, which is just a content provider.

it's really FAAMG in the US too, the people who coined the phrase were confused.

opinions here seem to vary based on where on the west coast the speaker lives
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