Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse

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• jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Motherfuckers even named their company after their useless hype product and then 5 years later just quietly kill it. Peak billionaire behaviour

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  • etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We taking bets on the next rebrand name?

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    • breezeblock@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      AI

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    • jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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

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    • kat_angstrom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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”

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    • klu9@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nothing But Bots ™️

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      METAI

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    • Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Dead Internet Company

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  • deacon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s like tattooing your new girlfriend’s name on your ass.

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    • YaksDC@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      More like tattooing that name on your face.

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    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “Hi im <girlfriends name>'s boyfriend. No no that is my legal name.” Behavoir

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• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How do you spend billions of dollars and not produce any content anyone wants? What were those thousands of man-hours spent doing?

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  • veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ✊💦

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• k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Truly a sad day for no one in particular.

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • leoj@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Any half decent company would fire its CEO after that disaster.

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  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That would be up to the shareholders. But Zuck holds the majority.

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• inari@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m sure the 6 Metaverse users are very disappointed right now 

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• manxu@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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”

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  • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  All “AI-first companies” will repeat this move in 2 years.

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• Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • Innerworld@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    techcrunch.com/…/meta-decides-not-to-shut-down-ho…

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• radiouser@crazypeople.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How much money was wasted on this pointless endeavour?

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