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My two cents. Great proclamations of vaporware often come before a tech reset - be they VR, AI over reach, future money, or some other boondoggle that everyone

by lumost 5y ago

My two cents. Great proclamations of vaporware often come before a tech reset - be they VR, AI over reach, future money, or some other boondoggle that everyone is meant to love but actually sucks and people hate. Facebook is pivoting to a non existant technology, and no one even knows whether anyone would want it if it existed. Everyone is dumping dollars on self driving cars and other AI tech that Keeps missing deadlines. As long as there is free money, tech companies will burn it trying to invent the future. But at some point, if the illusion is pierced, everyone will just see a money pyre.

yepthatsreality 5y ago
> Facebook is pivoting to a non existant technology, and no one even knows whether anyone would want it if it existed. This is not true. The tech exists, Facebook is creating hoopla about a VR video game to distract from its offenses and to dissuade regulation. You can’t regulate something that is undefined. I don’t disagree with the rest of your point.
- lumost 5y ago
  The Metaverse FB is pitching is either a ridiculously over-hyped video game, or vaporware. Arguably there may not be a difference. In the media, the main reference has been the "snowcrash" novel or "ready player one" level of immersion. Which is tech we fundamentally lack a reference for how to build.
  - yepthatsreality 5y ago
    Again, “level of immersion” is subjective to what? How good the graphics can be? How much rumble your hardware has? If Zuckerberg was smart he’d aim for something closer to The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
    - chrstphrknwtn 5y ago
      The one ad that I saw for Meta (The Tiger & The Buffalo / this is going to fun) certainly make the "metaverse" look like it's supposed to feel like drug-induced hallucinations.
  - Rastonbury 5y ago
    I'll buy FB stock once they release news of a neural implant plug into the matrix kind of technology.
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by lumost 5y ago

yepthatsreality 5y ago

> Facebook is pivoting to a non existant technology, and no one even knows whether anyone would want it if it existed. This is not true. The tech exists, Facebook is creating hoopla about a VR video game to distract from its offenses and to dissuade regulation. You can’t regulate something that is undefined. I don’t disagree with the rest of your point.

lumost 5y ago
The Metaverse FB is pitching is either a ridiculously over-hyped video game, or vaporware. Arguably there may not be a difference. In the media, the main reference has been the "snowcrash" novel or "ready player one" level of immersion. Which is tech we fundamentally lack a reference for how to build.
- yepthatsreality 5y ago
  Again, “level of immersion” is subjective to what? How good the graphics can be? How much rumble your hardware has? If Zuckerberg was smart he’d aim for something closer to The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
  - chrstphrknwtn 5y ago
    The one ad that I saw for Meta (The Tiger & The Buffalo / this is going to fun) certainly make the "metaverse" look like it's supposed to feel like drug-induced hallucinations.
- Rastonbury 5y ago
  I'll buy FB stock once they release news of a neural implant plug into the matrix kind of technology.

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