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Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by patentatt »

mritchie712 wrote: post #548
wpietri wrote: post #522

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What things would those be? As far as I know his successes are a) 1 idea he had as a 19-year-old plus b) some other things that he bought with the money from that.

* 1 idea he stole as a 19-year-old I'm not big on people complaining about "idea stealing", but zuck is in a league of his own with this shit, so worth pointing out that he didn't have the idea for FB.

Stole or just copied, the 'idea' of a social network wasn't novel by the time fb came around. Credit where it's due, it was executed well in the early stages and had the unique twist of being college-only at the beginning. People don't remember that when fb started gaining traction, friendster was already very much a thing but was stumbling hard on execution. I remember the friendster site being just dog slow. Myspace and Hi5 were also in the mix before or right at the same time as fb. Really just the PR/marketing angle and the not screwing up on execution are fb's claim to fame.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by oehpr »

Dumblydorr wrote: post #411

Can anyone here convince me AR/VR isn't a fad? If FB is headed towards a metaverse where our insane uncles can embed themselves further in a false reality, how is it that the rest of us sane individuals want to join their conspiratorial matrix? Even taking out the crazy uncles, VR makes me insanely nauseous. What's more, it's very expensive to get solid VR that doesn't, nevermind it still looks terrible even if you h…

Some VR looks pretty good, I think The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners looks great!

But of course, good proper unjank VR seemingly requires a 5x GPU power increase. You need 90+ FPS, two screens, high rez, and responsive. It's a pretty hard ask, so games need to take a big step down in quality in the name of performance. Even worse, a persons situational awareness and scale take a big leap up when compared to a flat screen, you notice flaws way easier.

Personally I was pretty lucky, VR doesn't seem to make me sick. And I use it frequently for lunch break exercise, I get to play games and get some physical activity in, which is a big win for a desk jockey. On that reason alone I don't think VR is going away. That's amazingly valuable.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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charcircuit wrote: post #588
joshmarlow wrote: post #387

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The neat thing about using NFTs is that you can represent the ownership on a public blockchain and that gives you some nice possibilities: 1) storing virtual property rights on a public ledger means that it can be shared among different 'metaverses', which provides friction against vendor lock-in; it limits specific vendors (like Facebook) to only providing UIs to underlying property 2) a single vendor going out of b…

>Blizzard could shutdown WOW and you would loose all of your loot, but if it's on a public ledger then your loot survives Your loot is worthless without the game. Why would you still want it?

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Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by majani »

carlosdp wrote: post #546
wpietri wrote: post #522

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What things would those be? As far as I know his successes are a) 1 idea he had as a 19-year-old plus b) some other things that he bought with the money from that.

Say what you will about Mark, no informed person could claim with a straight face that he's not one of the savviest business-people in history.

His ability to hold on to pole position once he gets it is definitely unprecedented, especially in an industry that's known for it's volatility. But in terms of original creativity, he scores extremely low.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by joshmarlow »

charcircuit wrote: post #588
joshmarlow wrote: post #387

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The neat thing about using NFTs is that you can represent the ownership on a public blockchain and that gives you some nice possibilities: 1) storing virtual property rights on a public ledger means that it can be shared among different 'metaverses', which provides friction against vendor lock-in; it limits specific vendors (like Facebook) to only providing UIs to underlying property 2) a single vendor going out of b…

>Blizzard could shutdown WOW and you would loose all of your loot, but if it's on a public ledger then your loot survives Your loot is worthless without the game. Why would you still want it?

mindcandy's comment sums it up well, but I'll just add that the loot is worthless without the game now - that's the point of vendor lockin.

But if items and their properties are stored in a public-by-default way, then other games can incorporate those items in it (without Blizzard's permission). So if you get some loot in one game, it can become available in others.

The neat idea is that application data from different sources become composable by default.

Frankly, I'm not much of a gamer - but an open ledger is the only basis that I can see to avoid vendor lock-in for the increasingly nuanced virtual environments that we are building.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by patentatt »

carlosdp wrote: post #546
wpietri wrote: post #522

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What things would those be? As far as I know his successes are a) 1 idea he had as a 19-year-old plus b) some other things that he bought with the money from that.

Say what you will about Mark, no informed person could claim with a straight face that he's not one of the savviest business-people in history.

lol, people don't remember all of the stern talking-to's zuck had to have from his investors in the beginning. The investors made him go to business classes to learn how to 'business' and talk to people. The one thing I could give him was to retain the ownership stake that he did, but that even could be said to be largely due to sean parker's influence and his experience with VCs.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by Ansil849 »

antiterra wrote: post #476
Ansil849 wrote: post #20

In London, in the area around the London Eye, there is a tourist trap that offers a very poor 'haunted house' type of attraction, usually something having to do with zombies. As each iteration of this tourist trap gains a reputation for being total rubbish and gains one star reviews online, every few months the attraction rebrands to another name.

This doesn't sound quite right, what's one of the names? The London Dungeon is near the Eye and has been around since the 70s, albeit in different forms and location. They moved closer to the Eye due to rail station construction in 2013, I believe? Down the street from the old London Dungeons location is the London Bridge Experience, which generally gets better reviews and doesn't appear to be owned by Merlin Enterta…

No, I don't mean any of the flagship attractions like the Dungeon. The one I'm thinking of is small one on the strip by the Aquarium.
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