Facebook Renames to Meta

Post by telesilla » Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 5:34 AM UTC

zzixp wrote: post #244

modeless wrote: post #102

Other interesting things said during the keynote: "and frankly, as we've heard your feedback more broadly, we're working on making it so you can log into Quest with an account other than your personal Facebook account. We're starting to test support for work accounts soon, and we're working on making a broader shift here within the next year. I know this is a big deal for a lot of people. Not everyone wants their soc…

This is actually pretty big for me. I got a Rift a while back but it's been in a drawer ever since I needed to connect my FB account.

Post by wolverine876 » Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 5:42 AM UTC

bcherny wrote: post #862

wolverine876 wrote: post #573

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> For better or worse, it does seem Zuckerberg is as invested in making the "metaverse" the new future of Facebook as Jobs was with Apple and the iPhone I don't think we should take that at face value; Zuckerberg of course has strong motivations to appear completely committed, including a desire to motivate employees, partners, etc., and a desire to distract from FB's current bad news (which might explain the timing…

I mean... https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-hire-10-000-workers...

Post by 314 » Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 5:48 AM UTC

api wrote: post #350

daviding wrote: post #36

If 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…

Virtual reality was always dystopian. It's what happens when we don't have a frontier and turn inward to computer aided fantasy and isolation. One of the best dystopian explanations for the Fermi paradox is that intelligences eventually figure out how to immerse themselves in high fidelity fantasy worlds and basically sit around and masturbate until some black swan event like a planet killer astroid or a gamma ray bu…

Post by firecall » Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 5:57 AM UTC

aliswe wrote: post #856

nerbert wrote: post #27

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Colombo invented the "one more thing". Give credit where credit is due ;)

who?

Post by fabianhjr » Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 6:07 AM UTC

daviding wrote: post #36

If 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…