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I think Facebook is in VR because they don't want the Metaverse to belong to anybody but them.
by nitrogen 6y ago
I think Facebook is in VR because they don't want the Metaverse to belong to anybody but them.
- echelon 6y ago100%. Zuckerberg sees that it has the potential, and he wants to have an early angle of attack in case someone else innovates first. Zuckerberg views platforms as chess pieces. He doesn't care what they are - he just wants the most valuable and strategic ones. He's not like a Musk that just builds or a Cook that refines product into a cohesive vision. Zuckerberg is playing war and finding the reverse salients. He's destabilizing and weakening the platform and expanding his reach. He's more like Bezos or Ellison.
- dougmwne 6y agoFor sure this is his play. My early take is that the VR/AR social experience is absolutely the killer app and will beat the pants off phone, chat, social feeds and video calls. It will be so good that it will be the default way to commutate at a distance, making it a huge threat to Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Messenger. I think the fufilment of that promise is still probably more than a decade out.
- fatnoah 6y ago>For sure this is his play. My early take is that the VR/AR social experience is absolutely the killer app and will beat the pants off phone, chat, social feeds and video calls. And that, IMHO, is why FB wants you to use FB login for your VR experience.
- nitrogen 6y agoIt's also the definition of disallowed monopolistic behavior -- using ownership of one area to control another. This is more egregious if you consider "VR" as not "virtual reality", but "virtual relationships."