Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15

Re:Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15 by robmccoll on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @12:48PM (#47428068)

Yes! And now Meta is chasing that too and failing. It's not clear to me what advantage developing its own LLMs affords Meta. Google and the other platform companies, I get it, but it's not like Meta is using what's unique about their social data to train something interesting.

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Re:Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15 by taeric on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @01:11PM (#47428397)

I think the general strategy for a long time in the tech world was to have as many of the programmers as you could under your umbrella. You don't necessarily know what you are racing towards, but the general feel was you knew that programmers were going to get there.

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Re:Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15 by dredmorbius on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:58PM (#47430665)

It also deprives your competition of their product, and/or bids up their cost.

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Re:Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15 by vrosas on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @01:10PM (#47428374)

Meta is just paying engineers not to work at any other faang company.

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Re:Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15 by alex1138 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @12:52PM (#47428130)

So that they can push those stupid AI questions at the bottom of Facebook posts

Zuck seriously seems to have no clue how to do anything. His entire existence is stealing other people's stuff

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