Facebook loses users for the first time

Re:Facebook loses users for the first time by safog on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:51AM (#30193130)

Re: metaverse, it's not really a handwavey after thought - they've been investing quite significantly ($10bn lost last year alone while all of Google's bets including deepmind and waymo lost ~1.45bn. >10k people working on it now AFAIK).

I think Facebook just got burned by not having a hardware platform this cycle - Apple and Google control the phones and Microsoft has the PC, XBox etc. They just want control over the next big hardware platform.

Whether that's a reasonable bet or not who knows? But I wouldn't be as dismissive of their ambitions in the space.

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Re:Facebook loses users for the first time by redisman on Thursday February 03, 2022 @11:25AM (#30194438)

I just wonder where the software for it is at. Oculus is chugging along and I believe that can get quite good. But building a impressive MMO-like 3D world/game is probably a 5-10 year endeavor and runs a high risk that it won’t be fun or novel. I guess they’ll mainly build the platforms but then they need someone to build the worlds on top of it.

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Re:Facebook loses users for the first time by hyferg on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:39AM (#30206029)

Zenith VR might fit your definition of MMO like 3D game.

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