Hey, the Zucc looks slightly less creepy as a VR puppet in that propaganda clip. I guess that's something.
For real, though. All of the marketing is "it's coming, it will be everywhere" which makes it sound roughly as appealing and positive as Covid. What is supposed to be the upside to the proles that are being pressured to take this all in? No matter what I read about it, it reads like a threat more than a promise.
You know how media always portrays a future internet as some bafflingly unusable VR thing that's just all the inconvenience of a shopping mall combined with the security nightmare of internet-of-things bullshit, and how everyone who knows anything about computers is like "lol how fucking stupid, imagine someone being so fucking stupid that they'd make something this terrible for literally no reason"?
Remember Second Life, the weird parasocial quasi-MMO thing with digital real estate scarcity and other weird scams?
Facebook is trying to do the latter again, but turn it into the former this time around.
It doesn't even seem NEW. It doesn't really offer anything new except "get it all in one place" company town and company store rackets. The hype feels very artificial. Maybe it's less artificial in :so-true: hellholes full of techbros, though.