I feel like all of the Metaverse stuff we've heard over the last few months was in preparation to try and distract/deflect from this.
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#313When the metaverse actually launches they will skyrocket. They were smart to pivot early. Saying the 'metaverse' is on FB right now is similar to people selling acres on the Moon before anyone landed. FB is planting an imaginary flag on the 'metaverse' hoping they can technically catch up to their claims and capitalize on it.
Your first sentences and last sentences contradict each other in my mind. They're selling nonense. I don't know why they're pushing the metaverse so hard in media. It feels as astroturfed as crypto is. I'm not putting on a VR headset to go to a meeting, I would literally never want that.
> It feels as astroturfed as crypto is.
I'm curious, how do you expect promotion to actually happen if you feel like "this" (this being a change in branding by a large company) is astroturfing? What is a non-astroturfing way to promote a new idea/product/thing? Or do you think any form of promotion is astroturfing?
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#314Good to know. Not using it anyways.
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Does anyone else find this on the level of batshit crazy insane? Meta, are we really going to divest so far from the physical world that the a virtual reality is worth that much? I mean VR is realistically a video game. I just don't see it but I do see desperation from FB.
I think this pandemic has proved how sane the idea of a Metaverse would be. Imagine meeting someone online, dating or friendship, you put on a lightweight VR headset and get transported to a replicated NYC rooftop bar, where loads of people from around the world are sitting, drinking and chatting. Socializing with a date or a group of people at the comfort of your home, going on outings, inviting your friends to your…
You pretty much described VRChat, but it's off-putting because for some reason everyone's avatar is a furry or sexualized anime child.
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#316"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." (Winston Churchill). One can only pray.
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#317And thus begins their gamble. They’re going to have to bet the entire biz on virtual. Most public companies can’t do this, but FB has a unique control structure that gives Zuck the ability to bet the farm.
Does anyone else find this on the level of batshit crazy insane? Meta, are we really going to divest so far from the physical world that the a virtual reality is worth that much? I mean VR is realistically a video game. I just don't see it but I do see desperation from FB.
The idea of the metaverse has happened over and over throughout the last few decades and has failed every time. It will continue to fail until the technology backing it is utterly incredible. Oculus is nowhere close. We’re talking about needing an F-16 and currently having the Wright brothers’ airplane. Give it another 40 or 50 years and maybe it will be viable.
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#318Its already frustrating enough having to use Facebook just to look up a restaurant's information, the set times for a concert, or whatever about a local business or event. If all that stuff starts to disappear behind a meta-verse wall, I might just leap off the nearest bridge instead.
This is the reason I went anti facebook years back not because of privacy implications but I felt with facebook the web will become less open. As most business will make a facebook page instead of a website accessible to everyone
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But they use Instagram instead. Either way Zuck wins.
Facebook is for old people. Instagram is for moderately old people. Snapchat is for moderately young people. TikTok is for young people.
Facebook : boomers
Instagram : millenials
TikTok : gen z
snapchat is sort of irrelevant from what I can gather.
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You think TikTok is facsimile of Facebook?
I think they're all the same, streams of pics/videos.
I mean... add text and you can describe most of the internet and digital information in general. I don't think it's a useful way to make a comparison at all.