Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June

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• veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What a comical waste of $80 Billion. Coulda bought two Twitters with that money instead and still come out on top.

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Coulda fed an entire country in the real world

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh? Ohh, you joke, poors aren’t real people!

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  • Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    $80bn for VR Miis that didn’t have legs until last year

    $80bn for “We have VRChat at home”

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  • northendtrooper@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I cannot fathom how $80billion was spent without anyone skimming off the top…and the middle…and the bottom.

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    • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m entirely convinced the whole thing was invented to scam Meta. So congrats to all the people who got paid along the way!

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    • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      they developed arguably good headsets and then sold them at a loss

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Meanwhile, OpenAI claims their losses will get near $80 billion before they start turning a profit. You’ve got to spend money to make money. Or to fail spectacularly. However the saying goes.

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  • Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Instead they bought Moltbook, the reddit for ai bots (only ai bots can post)

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    • JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Actually anyone can post using the API, and many people did. Lots of the heavily publicized posts were written by humans

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      wat

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• neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The best comment on this I’ve seen…

  It turns out, to the horror of techbros like Zuck, that the actual core demographics for VR worlds are not edgy cyberpunk antiheroes whose coolness could rub off on them, but femboy otaku who want to go drinking with friends while dressed as fabulous anime girls without even having leave their home and trans furries who want to party at visually spectacular virtual raves then pirate movies and have virtual cuddle piles.

  Which… isn’t very monetizable for normies.

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  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    this is happening on VRChat, not meta horizon worlds

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because meta wasn’t good for it, hence why it wasn’t popular at all.

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    • night_petal@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s been happening on Second Life for quite a long time now.

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    • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let me introduce you to Resonite.

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  • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    God dam I miss second life.

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• Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tbh I always thought it was unreleased and still being developed. My shock when I found out it was available and no one used it.

  Came off like VRChat for idiots.

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  • PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They tried REALLY hard to get us to use it for meetings when I worked there, but nobody wanted to give up their legs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    • Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I hope work didn’t buy headsets for everyone just for that

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    • eleijeep@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you don’t have legs then how can you go pantsless in a video call? Checkmate Zuck!

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• jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reading the article, Horizon Worlds is not shutting down, just the VR access. Apparently they’ve moved it to apps you access on iPhone and Android. I see the appeal even less; that seems like Second Life mobile.

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  • rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I loaded up my vr headset the other day for the first time in…. A year? Maybe more.
    And I was surprised to find my own custom decorated room was gone and instead I had a balcony to that Horizon place.
    I could see little people running and jumping around and some portals or doorways and other stuff.

    Is that what they are shutting down?
    So what happens to VR headsets’ “home screen”?

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    • Shindo66@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That is what they are shutting down. It was just a way to try to advertise stuff.

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    • CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And people running and jumping is just a pre-made animation. Not even real people

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    • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s probably been even longer since I used mine, which is a shame because it is fun; I just don’t have a good space for the more active games right now, or even Walkabout Mini Golf

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• comador@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ‘Meta will shut down’

  Hurray! oh? There’s more… damn.

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  • AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t wait for the day that I’m forced to switch from a discontinued Meta to a homebrewed OS that supports my library.

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• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I tried Horizons once. Confused TF out of me what its purpose was other than to have random people screaming into mics and yelling n**** at you all the time.

  It was not a fun experience and I never saw the point. I play VR games for VR experiences with actual fun in them.

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  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Confused TF out of me what its purpose was other than to have random people screaming into mics and yelling n**** at you all the time.

    So VR Discord?

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  • andallthat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The picture in the article clearly shows a virtual lady trying to kick a guy’s virtual balls. I think that says all one needs to know about the experience.

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  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s Mark Zuckerberg’s unlicensed digital daycares.

    I’ve only ever encountered children between ages of 6 and 15 there.

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• dorumon@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh my God it’s finally fucking over. I can use a Quest headset again without being inaudatited with ads essentially from Horizon Worlds. I can use the headset again without having to constantly hack it.

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    inaudatited

    What is this word? Like I know the one you were after, but I am so curious how messed it up so bad.

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    • underscores@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      by guess is inundated

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    • Patrikvo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You witnessed the birth of a new word. At least show some appriciation for this privilege. Iis

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• Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are you telling me my virtual real estate is worthless?!

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

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• SouthFresh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  20? Seems overly generous

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wanted them to feel better about themselves

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• Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Was this the thing with legless avatars from the uncanny valley? No idea how they wasted so much money - they’d have done better to employ a good gaming studio to make something fun that looked good. Could have saved billions there.

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• IratePirate@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good. Now can we call that cancerous corporation Facebook again?

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I never stopped.

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• Tamps@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is good news! I quite like the Quest 3 hardware, but I hated having Horizon rammed down my throat through the UI. I guess that’s because they were desperate to drive engagement.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does this mean I don’t have to see the hideous Meta Horizon avatar of myself I never asked for anymore?

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• CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Come on now, Zuckerberg doesn’t have 20 accounts, 12 at the most

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know why you’d think that, Human McHuman, YesImHuman, NotaLizard, NotaRobot, Normal Man, CEOsRPeople, MeritocracyWins are all owned by zuckerbot

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    • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You forgot all the variations of “Smokin Meats”.

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• Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They published an update article.

  Meta is backtracking on its plans to shut down the VR version of its metaverse. The company now plans to support Horizon Worlds in VR for the “foreseeable future,” though users shouldn’t expect new games, CTO Andrew Bosworth said in an update.

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• LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ironically, this will end up as a upgrade to Meta Quest owners, as they no longer will have that bullshit shoved all over the “Home” ambient.

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• Kraiden@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If those kids could read they'd be very upset

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even the Playstation Home lasted longer

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• realitista@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I actually can’t figure out how to access it. I have some portal in my home environment but I can’t go through it.

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• Goretantath@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Huh, there were 3 games that were kinda fun that people made, owell maybe theylport them to a different vr platform. Also guess i dont have a reason not to hack my quest niow

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  B-b-b-but they have legs!

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• timestatic@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Damn it always seemed just like beta software to me when I used it on my VR headset

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• melfie@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They gonna change the company to something other than Meta now?

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