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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.
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>b) How much would it cost to just send every one of them an Oculus headset for free? $300 * 3 billion people, so $900 Billion give or take which coincidentally is right around the market cap of the entire company.
retail price != manufacturing price, so say just 2-300 bil
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3D TVs were the clearest market signal that the market doesn't want this. It was not subtle. And yet everyone just acts like that didn't happen.
Did 3D TVs ever get to sub $1k? I think remember my dad bought one almost a decade ago and I’m sure he paid way more than that for a Sony 3D tv. I don’t know that we can outright dismiss anything based on 3D TVs not taking off. I’m certainly no fan of Facebook attempting to own this space, but to outright dismiss the whole concept because of the poor sales for 3D TVs seems naïve IMO.
I'm not sure the general public at large will like VR, either. It's disorienting. And if strip mall Lasik wasn't enough to tell, we don't like wearing things on our face. That will -never- change.
I remember going to a real 3d movie as a kid, but I forget where. Some movie studio park, probably. It was only 10 or so minutes of Hitchcock's 'The Birds', but wow was it amazing. Too amazing. I remember feeling real fear to where I'd take the glasses off for a few seconds, people were screaming, many took off their glasses before it was over.
Not sure if this relates to the metaverse, just sharing an anecdote.
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.
Colombo invented the "one more thing". Give credit where credit is due ;)
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Absolutely - this is what frustrates me most about the discourse around the metaverse - the insistence that a virtual world of limitless possibility be unnecessarily bound by the worst aspects of the real world. Doubly infuriating is the smug insistence that this is being done for the "benefit" of creators - as if the point of digital scarcity is a means to benefit creators rather than the speculators who will fuel t…
Wasn't able to watch the complete video without logging in. These values are going to be inherited and become more pronounced in meta for sure.
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On the flip side, a lot of people posit that it's exactly this mentality that caused the creation of the advertising profit model in the first place. Net users were unwilling to pay for content because content is trivially copyable, and the early net was idealistic so "Nobody really likes scarcity other than speculators and collectors". Advertising was a way to sidestep this problem altogether and turn users into the…
> unintended externalities You're correct to criticize advertising, but I also want to push back a little bit on the "utopia" of paywalls as a funding method for the web. There's a difference between paying for content creation and paying for content itself. Content creators and their time are actually scarce resources, even online. Content itself is not a scarce resource; once something is created it becomes abundan…