SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc

Re:SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc by georgewsinger on Thursday October 06, 2022 @08:15PM (#33115875)

Just want to clarify that I would never characterize Zuckerberg or Meta as "incompetent". Quite the contrary. I would instead more characterize the situation as Paul Graham did in one of his essays[1]:

> A lot of startups worry "what if Google builds something like us?" Actually big companies are not the ones you have to worry about-- not even Google. The people at Google are smart, but no smarter than you; they're not as motivated, because Google is not going to go out of business if this one product fails; and even at Google they have a lot of bureaucracy to slow them down.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html

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Re:SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc by Sebb767 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @09:15PM (#33116283)

To be honest, Meta seems pretty afraid of going out of business if their metaverse-pitch ends up failing - in fact, I'm pretty sure the whole metaverse push just happened because FB was (is) loosing ground fast.

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Re:SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc by numpad0 on Friday October 07, 2022 @03:55AM (#33118519)

I think Zuckerberg is afraid of his core beliefs breaking, that a man has a face and his name. None of existing VR platforms are made that way and are successful at the same time.

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