Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

Re:Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’ by Animats on Friday July 23, 2021 @02:21PM (#27933987)

will depend on some very open standards that are decentralized at the core

There's a performance problem. The open Web only works because we have enough compute power to tie up multiprocessor computers with a few gigaflops per CPU and gigabytes of RAM to display 2D text with a few pictures on the screen. A good 3D game world pushes the limits of what current hardware can do. The level of inefficiency associated with Javascript/HTML/CSS won't work for an interesting 3D world. It was tried. See X3D.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’ by at_a_remove on Friday July 23, 2021 @02:28PM (#27934046)

Oh, I have no illusions about how well the radically decentralized business works out. It is wildly inefficient, the content could be anything, and so on. Think Freenet. And I have watched the VR promise die enough deaths to make a cat envious.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’ by ericflo on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:44AM (#27968727)

Open standards don't equate to slow. Vulkan is an open standard, for example. The standard just has to allow for performant use.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’ by fnord77 on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:36PM (#27934733)

sooner or later hardware will be sufficient

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