Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people
by rkuykendall-com on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:01PM
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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.
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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people
by SV_BubbleTime on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:56PM
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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.
"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.
So I have to watch a 2 hour movie? Can't they explain it in like 1 paragraph?
Multipurpose VR-based persistent alternate reality.
Well, actually, the movie is based on a book, which is much more than a single paragraph.
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
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VR with a multidirection treadmill