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Does anyone know where this metaverse crap came from? Was it just straight out of Zuck’s mind? It’s so funny and bizarre to watch him torpedo the company like

Does anyone know where this metaverse crap came from? Was it just straight out of Zuck’s mind? It’s so funny and bizarre to watch him torpedo the company like this. Not that I’m complaining. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/21/mark-zuckerberg-shows-early-metaverse-headsets-mirror-lake-holocake.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/21/mark-zuckerberg-shows-early-...

trinovantes 4y ago
He probably saw Ready Player One and decided to bet on that future
dexwiz 4y ago
There was a shareholder call a few years ago where Zuck remarked that major technological shifts occur when screens change: Movies > TV > Monitors > Phone Screens. He sees VR as the next screen, and the metaverse as the content for that screen. He wants to capture and shape the VR market. But I think the real next media is already here, TikTok and social video. While the screens are the same, the last decade has seen a shift from text/images to videos. Maybe VR will take over, but not in the same way phones will. You can take your phone out and scroll through whatever very easily, but we are a LONG way from casually putting on a VR headset to consume a few minutes of content.
- JohnJamesRambo 4y ago
  That screen chain went down a portability curve and VR would be going backwards, I wonder if anyone has had the guts to tell him this in the FB citadel.
- tyrfing 4y ago
  > He sees VR as the next screen, and the metaverse as the content for that screen. He wants to capture and shape the VR market. VR is just part of it, it's the easiest version of XR and will be viable for years before good AR. It's only a stepping stone as technologies mature, and calling it "VR" seems to betray a fundamental misunderstanding. The goal isn't something separate and sequestered from real life, but intertwined with it. > While the screens are the same, the last decade has seen a shift from text/images to videos Explicitly commented on (ex 4Q21 ER), text -> images -> video -> ??? as increasing immersion when technology (like bandwidth) allows. Escaping a 2D screen is their attempt to leapfrog 'disruption' (Instagram, TikTok) and own the future before it happens, because they won't be able to buy it with current antitrust positioning.
caseyscottmckay 4y ago
Snow Crash by Neil Stevenson

trinovantes 4y ago

He probably saw Ready Player One and decided to bet on that future

dexwiz 4y ago

There was a shareholder call a few years ago where Zuck remarked that major technological shifts occur when screens change: Movies > TV > Monitors > Phone Screens. He sees VR as the next screen, and the metaverse as the content for that screen. He wants to capture and shape the VR market. But I think the real next media is already here, TikTok and social video. While the screens are the same, the last decade has seen a shift from text/images to videos. Maybe VR will take over, but not in the same way phones will. You can take your phone out and scroll through whatever very easily, but we are a LONG way from casually putting on a VR headset to consume a few minutes of content.

JohnJamesRambo 4y ago
That screen chain went down a portability curve and VR would be going backwards, I wonder if anyone has had the guts to tell him this in the FB citadel.
tyrfing 4y ago
> He sees VR as the next screen, and the metaverse as the content for that screen. He wants to capture and shape the VR market. VR is just part of it, it's the easiest version of XR and will be viable for years before good AR. It's only a stepping stone as technologies mature, and calling it "VR" seems to betray a fundamental misunderstanding. The goal isn't something separate and sequestered from real life, but intertwined with it. > While the screens are the same, the last decade has seen a shift from text/images to videos Explicitly commented on (ex 4Q21 ER), text -> images -> video -> ??? as increasing immersion when technology (like bandwidth) allows. Escaping a 2D screen is their attempt to leapfrog 'disruption' (Instagram, TikTok) and own the future before it happens, because they won't be able to buy it with current antitrust positioning.

caseyscottmckay 4y ago

Snow Crash by Neil Stevenson