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It appears Meta may be ready to put the metaverse out of its misery
- jsheard 11mo agoIt's a good thing they didn't do anything really embarrassing like rename the whole company after it.
- rl3 11mo agoI suspect the greater intent was a sort of morality car wash for their branding. The new name is general enough they're not tied to any specific business model despite the etymology of the rename.
- f30e3dfed1c9 11mo ago> they're not tied to any specific business model That would be really useful if they had more than one business model but they don't and probably aren't going to.
- biglyburrito 11mo agoIt's really too bad... I was hoping they'd continue flushing all that money down the drain.
- jsheard 11mo agoFor real though, Meta flushing all that money down the drain is keeping VR as a whole hanging on by a thread. I'm not sure whether it survives if they pull back to focus on Google Glass 2 or whatever.
- biglyburrito 11mo agoVR as envisioned by an ill-intented corporation like Meta isn't something that deserves to succeed. The sooner the Metaverse dies, the better.
- methuselah_in 11mo agoWell, even htc had let go this dream i guess long ago. Now new device from steam maybe help to do this with games
- ChrisArchitect 11mo agoPreviously on Bloomberg source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148080 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148080
- richardatlarge 11mo ago"meta" can actually mean many different things so can, "colossal" and "stupendous"