Any half decent company would fire its CEO after that disaster.
Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse
Submitted 1 month ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/meta-horizon-worlds-metaverse-vr.html
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YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 1 month ago
That would be up to the shareholders. But Zuck holds the majority.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
So he could fire himself if he were more rational.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
How do you spend billions of dollars and not produce any content anyone wants? What were those thousands of man-hours spent doing?
veeesix@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
✊💦
inari@piefed.zip 1 month ago
I’m sure the 6 Metaverse users are very disappointed right now
k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Truly a sad day for no one in particular.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’ll be a sad day for the people who lose their jobs because some idiot wasted colossal amounts of money on a delusional dream. Then again it was their choice to work for one of the most evil companies on the planet, so I don’t really pity them.
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Tbf they wouldn’t have even got their jobs if it weren’t for the delusional dream
leoj@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Honestly I’m a little sad, and its stupid… But I wanted to share.
I have never once set… foot? inside the metaverse, but I always envisioned it ending up like the Oasis from Ready Player One (great book).
I think the concept of VR could have such crazy legs if they just get the treadmill/walking situation fully ironed out, and at a reasonable price point.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Just because Meta killed their attempt it doesn’t mean the concept of the Metaverse is dead.
VRChat is the best actualized version of the concept we have and it has been going strong before, during and after this entire bullshit with Facebook.k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I don’t think that’s stupid at all.
I think the metaverse would be cool too, but I think it needs to be made by enthusiasts and not heartless corporations. Or crypto scammers. So while I don’t care that Meta’s shitty attempt is gone, I’m still looking forward to something cooler in the future.
People hang out in video games anyway, so hanging out in the metaverse isn’t that farfetched imo.
manxu@piefed.social 1 month ago
Is that where my friend wanted me to buy “real estate” a few years ago? He said he had gotten $200,000 invested and was going to retire once he sold… I suppose we are back to the original plan now, “Chick-Fil-A Chef Until 75”
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Unless it’s a part of meta horizons I didn’t know about (which is very possible, I interacted about 3 minutes with it), that particular metaverse might have been some crypto/NFT bullshit rather.
This sounds like something à la “decentraland” a.k.a cryptobros trying to sell plots in a terrible empty virtual world because some day it’ll sell for bazillions dollars, trust us.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
sounds like something à la “decentraland” a.k.a cryptobros trying to sell plots in a terrible empty virtual world
Yeah, that makes even NFTs look like a sound investment.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wait you actually know someone that fell for that? That’s nuts. I know they planned to monetize digital real estate before the metaverse even existed but I didn’t realize it actually happened.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
All “AI-first companies” will repeat this move in 2 years.
radiouser@crazypeople.online 1 month ago
How much money was wasted on this pointless endeavour?
Kissaki@feddit.org 1 month ago
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.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
No do the same with the unwanted AI shit.
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Motherfuckers even named their company after their useless hype product and then 5 years later just quietly kill it. Peak billionaire behaviour
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 1 month ago
We taking bets on the next rebrand name?
breezeblock@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
AI
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Well, by induction since the last hype was the “metaverse” and they rebranded to Meta, so because now the hype is “AI” they’ll rebrand to A
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m going to guess they’ll keep it and justify it as “metadata”. Like the metadata of it’s users that it sells
klu9@piefed.social 1 month ago
Nothing But Bots ™️
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It was “Meta”, but now they’re going all-in on AI, so they’ll probably want to go “MetAI” except that it’s lame and so are all the other various portmanteaus, so they’ll pivot to something inexplicable and wild like “Everything” or “AllAI”
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
METAI
Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 1 month ago
Dead Internet Company
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Meatverse?
deacon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s like tattooing your new girlfriend’s name on your ass.
YaksDC@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
More like tattooing that name on your face.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
“Hi im <girlfriends name>'s boyfriend. No no that is my legal name.” Behavoir