Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye

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• hypnicjerk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  and nothing of value was lost

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  • glibg@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    (Except of course the billions of dollars spent building it)

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s the only thing I like about this situation. That money went to the people who worked on the project.

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    • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Holy tax write-offs, Batman!

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  IT WAS STILL AROUND???

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Meta (the company hilariously rebranded with this non-sense as their foundation) has moved on to the next grift: AI and mobile surveillance devices.

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To be fair, they’ve been doing mobile surveillance for a long time.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sure, but I did specifically say mobile video surveillance. Pretty sure their goal is to reduce the friction of taking out your phone to start capturing a video.

      I’ve already ended a friendship over these stupid things.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      after thier propaganda feeds in fb wasnt generating enough profit.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    isnt meta kinda late in the game for AI anyways, apple was even later and they abandoned for the most part.

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    • Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Considering they developed the framework everybody builds upon nowadays, I doubt it.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not later than anyone else that hopped on the chat gpt bandwagon.

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’ve been in the AI game for about as long as everyone else. I would consider their lab to be one of the best in CV tech.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  VRChat is the most popular “metaverse” and it’s still growing every year.

  So it’s weird to call the metaverse dead when Horizon wasn’t even in the lead among its competitors.

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s funny how almost everyone from FAANG is failing hard in the gaming space. Like Google fails with Stadia, Amazon shutdown how many game studios, Netflix shutdown that studio that were making a Squidgame game and the Zuck dumped billions into the metaverse void. Looks like the Silicon Valley way of doing business just doesn’t work in the games industry.

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• BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Metaverse was like the AI nobody asked for getting pushed into apps. Nobody wanted Wii Mii like hangout rooms where you have to water a clunky headset.

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I never watered mine. Was that the issue?

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Metaverse was like the AI nobody asked for getting pushed into apps. Nobody wanted Wii Mii like hangout rooms where you have to water a clunky headset.

    I was willing to give a shot to something like the Metaverse, but the instant I heard it was a Facebook/Meta project I had zero interest and hoped it would die. This was my same experience with Occulus. These are both technologies I want for a cyberpunk future, but Facebook cannot be the one to control them.

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    • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I actually liked it back when it was called second life

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    • bystander@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The original guy that made Oculus stuck around after the buy out, until a couple years ago and rage quit. Because he said that Meta is killing his original vision. So yeah.

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• Zier@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh no! Shock!
  I would rather join MySpace before I purchased a house in the "metaverse".

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• huf@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Looks like meatverse is back on the menu

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• ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The metaverse, in some form, is nearly inevitable IMO. But it’ll be a federated-like infrastructure and I’m very glad Facebook will have fuck all to do with it.

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It seems that you understand what the term “metaverse” was even supposed to mean; care to enlighten the rest of us?

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    • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Think gravatar meets roblox VR web.

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    • 10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      we’ll live in pods and have jobs in second life

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not them, but I think I’ve got a bead on it, assuming you treat it as a general concept and not a trademark:

      It’s basically the Platonic ideal of a game lobby. Kinda like what Miiverse was supposed to be, or Ready Player One. They were both after my time but I think maybe kinda like Club Penguin or Roblox? Like an overworld with a custom avatar that you can socialize in and sync into other apps or games together.

      It does seem basically inevitable, fast forward gaming 10 years and I’d be surprised if something like that wasn’t the norm.

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    • Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Like many crappy things these days, the name and some of the concept were stolen from good sci-fi. Snow Crash, in this case, in which it was as if the entire Internet was VR.

      Which, the Web barely existed when that book was written, so wild visions of what the Internet might turn out to be were to be expected. And something like it remains a common cyberpunk trope to this day.

      That said, I disagree with the other poster that it will ever happen, let alone is inevitable.

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    • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Read the book ‘snow crash’, he was trying to do an even more dystopian version of… Just that entire book.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But it’ll be a federated-like infrastructure

    Unfortunately I don’t see any guarantees for this. Unless the incentives that led to the enshittification of the internet disappear, the Metaverse will probably eventually look and function much the same. It really is that predictable.

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    • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Perhaps an open set of standards at the least. Some form of super-oauth would be required but I should have clarified that the openness of a true federation-like model is aspirational: invisioned as a conscious and intentional rejection of the ever-increasing monetization, financialization, and enshittification of all mediums of social interaction.

      People didn’t jump on the FB metaverse partly because it was shit, but partly because it was painfully obvious it was full of grift and a billionaire’s wet dream of further social monopolization. The friction and frustration has been increasing. The world falling apart makes the little nagging annoyances just that much more irritating, and people are starting to actively resist them rather than just rant and succumb.

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yea, and asset ownership will make federated Social VR awkward. As in, few will put in time making spaces and games that can be instantly duplicated and rehosted.

      It’s an upside that platforms have, they can do at least some moderation regarding content theft. It’s never perfect, but it’s better than a free for all.

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• arsCynic@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Even his avatar looks dead.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pretty life-like tbh

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But a device you kind of use sometimes (if you remember you own it)

  Oh shit I do own one. Thanks for the reminder

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  • bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    May I ask why? It seems like a huge risk due to being tethered to a Facebook account which could get banned at any time. Was the price too good to pass up?

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I got it for free like four years ago and have barely used it since

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    • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They pretty much have a monopoly on standalone VR headsets atm

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• Carl@hexbear.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For real, they should have either bought or cloned VRChat as a first step, and then looked into expanding from there. That shit is a metaverse that people willing go into primarily because it enables a ton of free expression.

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  • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes but that expression wasn’t commercial, so it wasn’t what the snow crash company really wanted.

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• onnekas@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Say ‘goodbye’ already??

  I never got to say ‘hello’ in the first place!!

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• nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How can I say goodbye to a place neither I nor anybody I know has ever been

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s dumb is that they have the hardware for it, and 3rd party software can use the inside-out tracking to making your legs work. What the fuck is Meta’s problem? Do they only have vibe coders on staff?

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  • bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Facebook once explained that their mobile app is so huge because they encourage everyone to just roll their own thing instead of sharing code, because it’s faster to not have to coordinate or something. Well, if you never leverage other people’s work ever, you’re going to spend a lot of time reinventing wheels, and a lot of those wheels will look more like hexagons.

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    • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lol! Ephebophile management philosophy!

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• SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This will die, but in one year GTA6 will release. People are already “working” virtual jobs for pennies in unofficial servers for the last game and Rockstar has prepared the ground even more for the next.

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• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I miss the Playstation Home game. Wish that was vr.

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• rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh no but I was just about to join

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So long and thanks for all the memes.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They could have spent them much better, on me.

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• SteveNashFan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “I just bought more land in the Metaverse”

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can’t wait for Metaverse land annexations (hackers)

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• mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It will happen to ai too.

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