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He spent $15 billion to make a shitty ghost of a Second Life clone. That's not innovation.
by SrslyJosh 4y ago
He spent $15 billion to make a shitty ghost of a Second Life clone. That's not innovation.
- _5uxp 4y agoSeriously, where is the real product for that money? How did they spend that much?
- thefounder 4y agoI can definitely see how you can spend lots of resources building a new platform. I could spend years developing/interating over a "simple" cms. Big projects such VR are hard to get right. It's both a hardware and software problem and Zuck's timming may not work in his favor(he may be too early on VR)
- tkk23 4y agoSome comments have mentioned that the money went into company acquisitions. I don't have a source for that.
- redox99 4y agoI don't know if you're being facetious or what, but of the 15B spent on Reality labs obviously only a fraction went to Horizon Worlds.
- crazygringo 4y agoYes but Horizon Worlds is literally the "metaverse" that they named the whole company after. That's the flagship product it's all for. It's not some accessory app, it's the main thing. Yikes.
- zdyn5 4y agoMetaverse != Horizon Worlds
- spoils19 4y agoCan you explain what the Metaverse is then?
- thefounder 4y agoIt's supposed to be the platform for VR(i.e iOS sdk with appstore and all the lock-in).
- solardev 4y agoSo he bet the company on a third party app store that lets you download the shitty Second Life wannabe that nobody plays. How is that any better? Lol
- thefounder 4y agoNot really. The Second Life wanna be app is a bonus if it becomes popular. Just like Safari and other Apple apps on iOS. Meta bet it's VR ecosystem will become the next iPhone/ios ecosystem(hardware and software). So if someone builds a "killer" app on Oculus Meta wins anyway.
- crazygringo 4y agoBut that platform is Horizon Worlds. Mark's metaverse is very specifically a shared virtual physical environment. Yes you're going to pay to enter spaces and have experiences and buy clothing... but Horizon Worlds isn't an app on the platform. It is the platform, it is the metaverse, everything is happening within it in Mark's vision here. Metaverse == Horizon Worlds
- itsyaboi 4y agoHorizon Worlds is quite literally an app on the platform.
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- Fomite 4y agoThat's larger than the entire NSF annual budget.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoI think Second Life is only a pancake game? Oculus hardware is VR- if you haven't tried it out, it's really impressive how immersive it can be
- solardev 4y agoIt's so impressive most people who try it out put it away after a week and never touch it again. Who the heck wants this stuff?
- Rebelgecko 4y agoIf you have a Quest 2 you're not using, feel free to send it my way!
- solardev 4y agoI don't. Tried it at a friend's house and was like... that's nice but I'd never want to deal with the hassle and low quality games.
- stevefan1999 4y agoYes -- except you only have 2 hours of gameplay with AirLink