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Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
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Re: Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
#242Unbelievable. They re-architected the whole operating system around this stupid app. They discontinued their previous homescreen environments in favor of trying to promote Horizon Worlds, only to discontinue the blasted thing anyway? After all of those millions of dollars spent trying to make virtual events happen?
They also renamed the entire corporation from "Facebook" to "Meta" to prove how serious they were about it.
The rename was successful. The failure of Meta brand didn't directly impact the Facebook one.
Re: Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
#243Horizon Worlds was always going to be a disaster. Complete crazy goals. An embarrassing mess of dopey looking legless avatars, then trying to force Meta employees to use it (everybody I knew there hated it). At this point I would like Palmer Luckey to take back what is left of Occulus, the tech has (much more modest) opportunities in gaming, entertainment, enterprise, military uses. Zuckerberg should pay him to take it.
Re: Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
#244Unbelievable. They re-architected the whole operating system around this stupid app. They discontinued their previous homescreen environments in favor of trying to promote Horizon Worlds, only to discontinue the blasted thing anyway? After all of those millions of dollars spent trying to make virtual events happen?
Billions. Facebook has spent billions and billions over the past decade in VR. Starting with the Oculus merger and then in 2021 with the rebrand. 10 billion a year supposedly for the past 5 years now.
Not on Horizon Worlds
Re: Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
#245When they started it they decided to ignore all the in house experience they had for former game developers and instead to "reinvent animation and collision systems from scratch". Even without legs, it was a damn failure
Re: Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
Billions. Facebook has spent billions and billions over the past decade in VR. Starting with the Oculus merger and then in 2021 with the rebrand. 10 billion a year supposedly for the past 5 years now.
I kept saying to myself, they must be seeing something I'm not... I guess not
The product isn't Facebook, Quest, or Instagram. The product isn't advertising. The product isn't even people.
The product is the stock price.
Viewed through that lens, keeping the hype going at all costs makes sense.
Re: Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
I kept saying to myself, they must be seeing something I'm not... I guess not
The product isn't Facebook, Quest, or Instagram. The product isn't advertising. The product isn't even people. The product is the stock price. Viewed through that lens, keeping the hype going at all costs makes sense.
The product is a platform Meta control free of Windows, Google or Apple.
That's what meta(verse) was suppose to build.
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
While simultaneously renaming the VR headsets to also use Meta branding instead of Oculus, even though Oculus was a great brand and the most recognizable name in the VR industry. What made it worse is that by that point they'd produced lots of headsets with Oculus branding, including an Oculus button on one of the controllers. So, they had to change that button to also have a different logo and name, and have the sof…
IIRC the reason they abandoned Oculus brand was that Palmer Luckey sold the company with condition the Oculus headsets would not need a facebook account to use it. Later they renamed the company and headset, and would you look at that — it requires meta account now.
This isn't correct
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
Billions. Facebook has spent billions and billions over the past decade in VR. Starting with the Oculus merger and then in 2021 with the rebrand. 10 billion a year supposedly for the past 5 years now.
I kept saying to myself, they must be seeing something I'm not... I guess not
There is. Reality Labs is not just VR. There are several divisions doing things non VR related. These areas have significant investment.
Re: Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
#250Unbelievable. They re-architected the whole operating system around this stupid app. They discontinued their previous homescreen environments in favor of trying to promote Horizon Worlds, only to discontinue the blasted thing anyway? After all of those millions of dollars spent trying to make virtual events happen?
Billions. Facebook has spent billions and billions over the past decade in VR. Starting with the Oculus merger and then in 2021 with the rebrand. 10 billion a year supposedly for the past 5 years now.
Reality Labs is more than VR