This transition has been hyped up since I was in college in the early 2000s at least, where I remember attending presentations on Internet 2.0 and other such buzzwords. Mass market does not want to wear the goggles or do some elaborate version of Second Life. If anything people want less screen-time rather than an even more isolating intrusive version of it.
Facebook Renames to Meta
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#32The 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.
Colombo invented the "one more thing". Give credit where credit is due ;)
Colombo was also more valuable that this announcement it seems.
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#33The 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...
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#34MANGA sounds more fun then FAANG so that’s nice
If you replace F with M, you must replace G with A as well.
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#35I 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 wonder what the new CERN and web will be.
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#36If 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 keen on the AR/VR space (surrounded by headsets here), but the early adopters are so polarized about Facebook/Oculus's involvement. I don't know if a rebrand (is this really that?) would be enough for the tech crowd to forget and move on.
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#37Holy crap! I drunkenly guessed that lame-ass name. Somebody just got $1 richer!
In case you're still drunk, what will the new acronym be?
MAANG? MAGNA? AANGM?
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#38On 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
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#39So is this like Google -> Alphabet where it's mostly a behind-the-scenes type thing?
yes.
They seem to be on to something.