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Metaverse always felt like they were trying to invent a new thing for the sake of inventing a new thing. We have all of this money and no ideas, so let's try..
by Legend2440 2y ago
Metaverse always felt like they were trying to invent a new thing for the sake of inventing a new thing.
We have all of this money and no ideas, so let's try... productivity-oriented Second Life in VR?
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoI took it as trying to corner a hardware device market they owned. Not limited by whatever telemetry Google and Apple are willing to share.
- quitit 2y agoMaybe I'm a bit too cynical, but I always felt like its entire reason for being was to be the optimal data collector. Everything Meta does is driven by that need, and this never revealed itself as an exception. That view also felt like the simplest explanation for why they re-implemented things we can already do extremely efficiently without a virtual world, while largely ignoring the efficiencies and innovation that a virtual world can bring.