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Re:Meta VR prototypes aim to make VR 'indistinguishable from... by mortenjorck on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:23PM (#31815387)
There's an alternate universe where Zuckerberg takes Yahoo's $1B offer for Facebook in 2006 (which Yahoo sells a decade later to Pinboard for $100k) and becomes more of an Elon Musk figure, investing in and running a handful of forward-thinking businesses.

Imagine Oculus becoming Meta without the Facebook baggage – a hardware-focused company with a major services play, but no adtech business.

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Re:Meta VR prototypes aim to make VR 'indistinguishable from... by rl3 on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:38PM (#31815623)
>Imagine Oculus becoming Meta without the Facebook baggage – a hardware-focused company with a major services play, but no adtech business.

I think this was called Magic Leap. I don't know, I think I still prefer Rony Abovitz awkwardly dancing around in a space suit rather than Zuck.

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Re:Meta VR prototypes aim to make VR 'indistinguishable from... by intrasight on Monday June 20, 2022 @09:36PM (#31818740)
There's only a hand-full of companies that can make the kind of investment that VR will require. FB is one of them. So is ByteDance.
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Re:Meta VR prototypes aim to make VR 'indistinguishable from... by germinalphrase on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:42PM (#31815665)
A cautionary tale - for a certain kind of person.
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