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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by kadomony on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:55AM (#33531616)
I mean, the "world-changing" stuff they're investing in is what directly led to this layoff. The metaverse was the most heavily impacted by these layoffs.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by ct0 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @09:35AM (#33532161)
Meta didnt just lay off metaverse related employees according to my source.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by kadomony on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:10PM (#33534620)
Didn't say that it was solely them. But they absolutely got carved up.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by beeboop on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:26PM (#33535814)
There are other people commenting saying it was much lighter than expected and light compared to other cuts
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by amusedcyclist on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @09:00AM (#33531693)
There were some contradictory signals about this in the article. In one bit Mark says they are continuing to focus on the metaverse but he also says some people at Reality labs will be affected. But it sounds like the apps teams are going to be affected too
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by nottorp on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @10:56AM (#33533425)
What's that metaverse? Never been able to figure it out.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by system2 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @11:44AM (#33534182)
Just a name change for FB's parent company. Also zucc wanted to excite people with VR stuff but it is not even close to 5 years ago Recroom experience yet.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by hashtag-til on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @11:53AM (#33534344)
I'm sure there are lots of competent people putting a lot of effort in "Metaverse", but to me it looks really just yet another VR world. Does anyone know what is the concrete new thing it would make successful?
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by nottorp on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:09PM (#33534608)
They could buy Second Life i guess :)
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by rkuykendall-com on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:01PM (#33534473)
Metaverse is like NFTs. You can have it explained to you a dozen times but it will never make sense because it doesn't make sense.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by SV_BubbleTime on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:56PM (#33535346)
I own an Oculus 2, I really love Half Life Alyx, I had a PC that works well for VR...

I have no idea if Metaverse is a game you download and run or it's supposed to be some tokens you take from game to game. I just have no idea. I've seen the creepy/shitty Zuck avatars, so I assume there is some chat-game involved somewhere.

Notice there are no questions in this post. I don't care to learn. Just re-stating how poor the messaging of what it is they apparently want me to care about is.

Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by dqpb on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:23PM (#33535760)
"Ready Player One" is a pretty concrete illustration of what a Metaverse is.

It may not be realistic or desirable, but I don't get how someone couldn't possibly wrap their head around what it is.

Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by nottorp on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:41PM (#33536006)
So I have to watch a 2 hour movie? Can't they explain it in like 1 paragraph?
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by ericd on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @04:15PM (#33537954)
Multipurpose VR-based persistent alternate reality.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by ar_lan on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @04:52PM (#33538443)
Well, actually, the movie is based on a book, which is much more than a single paragraph.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by nottorp on Thursday November 10, 2022 @06:38AM (#33545045)
There have been books about virtual worlds since the first computer came out. I'm familiar with a good bunch of them. Get off my lawn!

What I'm poking fun at is that i haven't seen a single piece of news explaining Zuck's plan. Did he even have one?

Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by the_doctah on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @05:27PM (#33538948)
VR with a multidirection treadmill
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by 0xbadcafebee on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:45PM (#33536074)
A new place to sell ads.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by loeg on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @11:46AM (#33534209)
> The metaverse was the most heavily impacted by these layoffs.

Where are you hearing that?

Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by Taylor_OD on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @11:58AM (#33534422)
Recruiting/TA is the most heavily impacted and the post says as much... People just love to have the Metaverse.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by daniel_iversen on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @05:45PM (#33539178)
Yeah, someone posting above literally said that their AR/VR teams were left pretty much unscathed. In fairness these teams might also be a lot smaller and more "optimised" in desired structure as they're younger than the rest of the company.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by swalsh on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @02:19PM (#33536512)
Smart people can also change the world by working on climate change, improving healthcare costs, addressing the energy crisis, coming up with new ways to mass manufacturer consumer goods at reasonable prices without shipping things halfway around the world and back, help an increasingly aging population do basic stuff.... the metaverse (maybe crypto?) were just natural evolutions of existing business models, but these weren't the world changing things people need, so capitalism (the brutal nature is why it works) didn't reward it.

If these smart people spend their brain energy to address these needs, which the world actually needs, they'll find success again, and the world will be changed in the way it needs to be... and frankly that's the way capitalism is supposed to work. Changing the world is only rewarded when people want it.

Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by throwaw20221107 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @04:22PM (#33538041)
Lol way too hard given all the politics and gatekeepers in those fields. Doing software is so much easier than that right now.

And I disagree that solving climate change etc. is a "need" for most people. I think we all pretty much accept that climate change is going to happen unless some major coups or revolutions take place, and there's nothing we can do about it. Seems like the plan for the individual is just to ride it out for our 80 years, or until there's some food shortage or water crisis that kills us.

Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by bergenty on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @03:02PM (#33537061)
Not true. The AR/VR group is mostly unaffected.