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Wait but we have found a killer app for it, 3D videogames, isn't it? It's just not a market big enough for Meta since they want everyone to be using it so they

Wait but we have found a killer app for it, 3D videogames, isn't it? It's just not a market big enough for Meta since they want everyone to be using it so they are looking for bigger markets? But it seems to me there is a very clear and pocket-deep sector there.

muglug 4y ago
3rd-person video games can be fun — I really enjoyed playing Lucky's tale back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLantPfNRIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLantPfNRIY, but first-person games don't map half as well.
- nomel 4y ago
  The HL 1/2 and Doom 1/2 ports severely disagree.
blobbers 4y ago
They haven’t really started trying. Half Life Alyx is still on the top of everyone’s list, but mac/quest2 users can’t play it. Most quest 2 games feel like phone games. Super shallow, and not amazing. Meta should bid for world of Warcraft. MMORPGs are the most successful form of metaverse to date.
- Firmwarrior 4y ago
  I don't know if the smoldering wreckage of Activision-Blizzard could make the next WoW..
- f1refly 4y ago
  I highly doubt that the average mac can play half life alyx at acceptable performance levels. Aren't most of them laptops with integrated gpu?
  - blobbers 4y ago
    If you’re a designer you used to get the Intel with Radeon cards. I thought the M1 and M2 has reasonable graphics capabilities. https://www.techradar.com/news/apples-m1-chip-can-apparently-outperform-some-amd-and-nvidia-graphics-cards#:~:text=M1%20chip%20benchmark%20results&text=The%20GFXBench%205.0%20(opens%20in,to%202.6%20TFLOPS%20of%20throughput https://www.techradar.com/news/apples-m1-chip-can-apparently....
TillE 4y ago
That's the really funny thing about Meta's angle. VR is pretty exciting for games, there's a lot of potential there. A metaverse of games is actually an incredibly cool concept, with lots of possible ways to conceptualize that. But they're not at all interested in that! They're betting big on some dubious niche productivity / social uses for VR. Even if you enjoy VR meetings, how is Meta going to make billions from that?

muglug 4y ago

3rd-person video games can be fun — I really enjoyed playing Lucky's tale back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLantPfNRIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLantPfNRIY, but first-person games don't map half as well.

nomel 4y ago
The HL 1/2 and Doom 1/2 ports severely disagree.

blobbers 4y ago

They haven’t really started trying. Half Life Alyx is still on the top of everyone’s list, but mac/quest2 users can’t play it. Most quest 2 games feel like phone games. Super shallow, and not amazing. Meta should bid for world of Warcraft. MMORPGs are the most successful form of metaverse to date.

Firmwarrior 4y ago
I don't know if the smoldering wreckage of Activision-Blizzard could make the next WoW..
f1refly 4y ago
I highly doubt that the average mac can play half life alyx at acceptable performance levels. Aren't most of them laptops with integrated gpu?
- blobbers 4y ago
  If you’re a designer you used to get the Intel with Radeon cards. I thought the M1 and M2 has reasonable graphics capabilities. https://www.techradar.com/news/apples-m1-chip-can-apparently-outperform-some-amd-and-nvidia-graphics-cards#:~:text=M1%20chip%20benchmark%20results&text=The%20GFXBench%205.0%20(opens%20in,to%202.6%20TFLOPS%20of%20throughput https://www.techradar.com/news/apples-m1-chip-can-apparently....

TillE 4y ago

That's the really funny thing about Meta's angle. VR is pretty exciting for games, there's a lot of potential there. A metaverse of games is actually an incredibly cool concept, with lots of possible ways to conceptualize that. But they're not at all interested in that! They're betting big on some dubious niche productivity / social uses for VR. Even if you enjoy VR meetings, how is Meta going to make billions from that?