does anyone get the feeling that this also reeks a little bit of desperation? like millionaire and billionaire are promising ever-more implausible technologies that just seem decades out of reach at best in order to cling onto investors? i mean, musk literally promised a final solution to the conflict between workers and capital owners in the form of a robot, and now zuckerburg offers us this shit which looks every bit as unfeasible as a literal autonomous humanoid machines capable of replacing every industrial and service worker.
I mean he could have made-up literally anything else to divert attention from whatever number of congressional probes against facebook that are all going on at once, why this coked-up adolescent fantasy?
It's absolutely aimed at investors, not congressional probes. I mean investors actually have power over them, so that's of course who Zuck and FB are more concerned about.
Approximately everyone who has internet and isn't in China uses an FB-owned social media product. They're out of people, there's no room for growth. The investors need growth because it's capitalism and that's how their class gets paid. So either the company stops giving the investors what they want, and loses all their money. Or they invent a way to get more money from their existing pool of customers, which means they have to invent a reason people spend even more time on their products than they already do on social media.
Crazy that capitalism sometimes just reach the point where profit hits a limit and starts dropping. I wish someone wrote a book about this.
they have a really bad idea they're actually going to try and it's going to be shite
corporate-phobic much? money is free speech and corp rights are human rights 😤
This is what I always say. Always encourage people to sign up to communities such as meta to to experience the communard lifestyle.
Ya I can't believe someone would deadname a corporation, someone's just asking to be cancelled
Mark Zuckerberg announced the new name as he unveiled plans to build a "metaverse" - an online world where people can game, work and communicate in a virtual environment, often using VR headsets.
Just stop.
Love too know that I’m eventually going to have to use this for work and I can’t opt out of it
Imagine a social media in which you can actually just get work done? Don’t you want that?
It's the plot of Snow Crash, a much weirder and more worthy novel.
an online world where people can game, work and communicate in a virtual environment, often using VR headsets.
So the Matrix actually won't happen because of a robot rebellion, but moreso because of the eldritch uncontrollable nature of capitalism...
I'm convinced that this pivot is just to trick congress into thinking they are innovating so they don't break them up.
yeah Google did this earlier with Alphabet. just makes it harder to break them up, "look, we're different companies!"
The Alphabet reorg was to drag speculative and low-return projects like Waymo, Google Fiber, and Google Loon out into their own top-level line items so investors would see that they're not using up that much money, and most of the company's funding is going to the milking the major cash cows.
If Congress is competent at advocating for the capital class (which is supposed to be the one thing they are good at), they have no interest in breaking them up. The congressional hearings are basically “hey, you’re making us look bad so tone it down a little”. They’re scolding their child so they don’t look negligent and so the child will hide the shitty stuff they’re doing better. Do you have any idea how much our surveillance state’s budget would have to skyrocket if Facebook and Google actually got trust busted? They make that surveillance cost effective and as a reward they are granted monopoly status
Meta definitely doesn't sound like the evil megacorp villain of a scifi novel.
I don't know if it's more arrogant for Elon Musk to name his rockets after Culture ships or for Facebook to rebrand as literal cyberpunk villains, but boy what a world we live in.
lmao, this is gonna lead to so many puns in Portuguese
"meta" is the imperative form of "meter", which means to shove/put/stick something into something else... it's got very sexual connotations, in fact, "meter" is a very crass way to talk about having sex
here's one, for free: "zuck, Meta essa rede social no teu cu", "zuck, shove this social network up your ass"
How to get away from an old problem you created? Make a new problem! Meatverse.(tm)
Facebook buying Oculus is going to turn out to have bigger consequences than we could have expected, isn't it?
Ehhhjj, I just don't see VR or AR fully taking off. VR is borderline pointless for much other than gaems and maybe some kinds of simulation. AR just seems annoying and distracting as it is. AR is the bigger maybe for me but I don't think the doomscroll would be as effec without it being on a small handheld device. It's a fidget and if you're like me, used while watching movies or whatever while periodically checking phone crap. If it's part of your general vision and not something to periodically look down at I think tmit will be too obtrusive.
AR still seems to be massively underutilized in areas where it could be cool. Why no AR Mario kart go kart tracks yet Nintendo? :whywhywhywhywhy: pretty sure I could knock that up myself in a few months.
Nintendo actually did to AR Mario Kart with RC cars for a Switch add on toy thing, don't think it sold the best but it looks cool as hell
If it's easy enough that they can do it on limited run of toys, why not just slap the tech a set of real go karts?
Liability. The first time I was knocked unconscious was from treating real life go karting like Mario Kart. I'm guessing you want items which could really only have the effect of locking a Kart down for a period of time, that's some whiplash right there unless it comes to a gradual stop which is hard to do.
I want real F Zero racing instead.
The big market with VR I would think is virtual remote work, and Facebook's profit model of advertising + data collection would cause a lot of corporate IT departments to pass on it. The tech also isn't really good enough yet on Oculus for people to spend a significant amount of time doing real work while wearing a headset. I think a company like Apple or MS would probably stand a better chance of pulling that off.
I don’t think buying Oculus was about using their tech specifically. More about controlling the market they were planning g to dominate
Lol naming your company after dystopic novels is such a weird move. I do not get it except that the people in charge of branding have very little reading comprehension.
Like the metaverse is snow crash wasn't actually a good thing, nor was the mob run pizza delivery situation either.
When you fuck up so bad running a multi-billion dollar company that you blow up the entire brand
:zuck:
