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I'm happy that FB is spending their money on this. It's an endless money pit that most likely will fizz out than prove revolutionary. People won't pop in and o
by raverbashing 5y ago
I'm happy that FB is spending their money on this. It's an endless money pit that most likely will fizz out than prove revolutionary.
People won't pop in and out their Oculus to use the metaverse. A lot of people won't even be able to use it (motion sickness, etc). Contrast this with every other mobile. It's not a media that significantly adds an advantage to communication (see how 3D cinema died again)
The challenges the article pose are also interesting. Unlimited users? "Always on/fully stateful/etc" again, seems like a giant money pit and a Sisyphean task. For what? Second Life 2.0 with VR googles?
Compared to that, Elon's proposal of solving world hunger with 6Bi dollars seems outright doable.
And it seems Mark is more worried in "proving something" and has turned the hubris knob to 11