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I mean, the "world-changing" stuff they're investing in is what directly led to this layoff. The metaverse was the most heavily impacted by these layoffs.
by kadomony 4y ago
I mean, the "world-changing" stuff they're investing in is what directly led to this layoff. The metaverse was the most heavily impacted by these layoffs.
- amusedcyclist 4y agoThere were some contradictory signals about this in the article. In one bit Mark says they are continuing to focus on the metaverse but he also says some people at Reality labs will be affected. But it sounds like the apps teams are going to be affected too
- ct0 4y agoMeta didnt just lay off metaverse related employees according to my source.
- nottorp 4y agoWhat's that metaverse? Never been able to figure it out.
- system2 4y agoJust a name change for FB's parent company. Also zucc wanted to excite people with VR stuff but it is not even close to 5 years ago Recroom experience yet.
- hashtag-til 4y agoI'm sure there are lots of competent people putting a lot of effort in "Metaverse", but to me it looks really just yet another VR world. Does anyone know what is the concrete new thing it would make successful?
- nottorp 4y agoThey could buy Second Life i guess :)
- rkuykendall-com 4y agoMetaverse is like NFTs. You can have it explained to you a dozen times but it will never make sense because it doesn't make sense.
- SV_BubbleTime 4y agoI own an Oculus 2, I really love Half Life Alyx, I had a PC that works well for VR... I have no idea if Metaverse is a game you download and run or it's supposed to be some tokens you take from game to game. I just have no idea. I've seen the creepy/shitty Zuck avatars, so I assume there is some chat-game involved somewhere. Notice there are no questions in this post. I don't care to learn. Just re-stating how poor the messaging of what it is they apparently want me to care about is.
- dqpb 4y ago"Ready Player One" is a pretty concrete illustration of what a Metaverse is. It may not be realistic or desirable, but I don't get how someone couldn't possibly wrap their head around what it is.
- nottorp 4y agoSo I have to watch a 2 hour movie? Can't they explain it in like 1 paragraph?
- ericd 4y agoMultipurpose VR-based persistent alternate reality.
- the_doctah 4y agoVR with a multidirection treadmill
- ar_lan 4y agoWell, actually, the movie is based on a book, which is much more than a single paragraph.
- 0xbadcafebee 4y agoA new place to sell ads.
- loeg 4y ago> The metaverse was the most heavily impacted by these layoffs. Where are you hearing that?
- daniel_iversen 4y agoYeah, someone posting above literally said that their AR/VR teams were left pretty much unscathed. In fairness these teams might also be a lot smaller and more "optimised" in desired structure as they're younger than the rest of the company.
- AlwaysRock 4y agoRecruiting/TA is the most heavily impacted and the post says as much... People just love to have the Metaverse.
- swalsh 4y agoSmart people can also change the world by working on climate change, improving healthcare costs, addressing the energy crisis, coming up with new ways to mass manufacturer consumer goods at reasonable prices without shipping things halfway around the world and back, help an increasingly aging population do basic stuff.... the metaverse (maybe crypto?) were just natural evolutions of existing business models, but these weren't the world changing things people need, so capitalism (the brutal nature is why it works) didn't reward it. If these smart people spend their brain energy to address these needs, which the world actually needs, they'll find success again, and the world will be changed in the way it needs to be... and frankly that's the way capitalism is supposed to work. Changing the world is only rewarded when people want it.
- throwaw20221107 4y agoLol way too hard given all the politics and gatekeepers in those fields. Doing software is so much easier than that right now. And I disagree that solving climate change etc. is a "need" for most people. I think we all pretty much accept that climate change is going to happen unless some major coups or revolutions take place, and there's nothing we can do about it. Seems like the plan for the individual is just to ride it out for our 80 years, or until there's some food shortage or water crisis that kills us.
- bergenty 4y agoNot true. The AR/VR group is mostly unaffected.