Re:Oculus 'Always On' Services and Privacy Policy May Be a C...
by iammyIP on Saturday April 02, 2016 @10:42AM
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> Facebook is building the first virtual world. Think about that.
No, Facebook is a glorified chatroom with constant surveillance and ads. The only thing unique it did was to aggregate enough gravity to become the first stop for digital peasants of all ages. Facebook is not building anything virtual first here.
Re:Oculus 'Always On' Services and Privacy Policy May Be a C...
by nitrogen on Saturday April 02, 2016 @03:15PM
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I think they are talking about the Metaverse.
Re:Oculus 'Always On' Services and Privacy Policy May Be a C...
by Animats on Saturday April 02, 2016 @02:57PM
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There are lots of virtual worlds. There, Second Life, etc. None have become really successful, but they continue to work. Second Life supports the Oculus development unit, although not the production product. (The production Oculus is locked down; only apps from Facebook's store or with Facebook-issued "Oculus keys" will run.)
Re:Oculus 'Always On' Services and Privacy Policy May Be a C...
by Tepix on Monday April 04, 2016 @08:32AM
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Second Life was somewhat successful for a while.
VR will give these virtual worlds a lot more appeal. As will the increase of bandwidth and improved graphics. There's a reason that two of the Linden Labs guys (the company behind Second life) are (separately) working on successors.
At time stamp 29:19: There might be advertising in the world, but we need to figure that down the line. That is probably where the business will come from...
And at time stamp 29:50: If we are successful in building the kind of platform that we think we can build here, there should be lots of different monetization opportunities, it is too early to make any concrete plans in terms of exactly what virtual will be.
Facebook is building the first virtual world. Think about that.