Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Already Sucks

Re:Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Already Sucks by lumost on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:36PM (#28081895)

Is there any evidence that the technology for the meta verse is anywhere near ready? The underlying tech of VR has been 5 years away for the last decade, consumer adoption of the early devices is mixed at best.

This reminds me of the old MS office videos that looked so cool but were ultimately just vapor ware.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Already Sucks by Hammershaft on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:52PM (#28082012)

Any link on the old MS office videos? Never heard of this

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Already Sucks by lumost on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:31PM (#28082271)

There was a series of them made from 2009 to 2015. Originally they were intended to show what Microsoft productivity products would look like in 2020.

Here is the first one that I could find, as far as I can tell Microsoft doesn’t distribute them anymore.

https://youtu.be/8Ff7SzP4gfg

The big ideas were that screens would be everywhere, and dedicated animated touch interfaces would be the default computing interface. This motivated the development of the windows 8 and Microsoft surface line of products to at least a certain extent - but looking at the videos it’s clear that nothing remotely like what they show would have been possible/common in 2020.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Already Sucks by vyrotek on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:47PM (#28081970)

If you ask my kids, they'd say yes. RecRoom on the Quest2 is a huge and fun. It's full of social spaces and games. They'd spend all day on it if we'd allow it.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Already Sucks by esyir on Friday August 06, 2021 @01:37AM (#28083679)

That's unfortunately why I avoid those spaces, even though I'm a huge fan of vr. Too many squeakers. Make being there a massive pain.

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