the Metaverse just didn’t have legs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Hm95rQYpM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260318-facebook-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr - podcast
time: 6 min 29 sec
Riding this high for a while folks
Against all odds they found a worse future to pursue than forcing employees to strap VR goggles to their heads 40 hours a week, and have pivoted towards AI.
And toward mass surveillance.
When you look deep into who’s pushing all these new ‘age verification’ laws all the sudden, Meta’s fingerprints are all over it.
Imagine how much money was spent on this…
You don’t have to!
The answer is $77 billion USD!
Both customers will still be able to get Horizon Worlds on a mobile phone
I loled
lol
Lmao, even
In a rational world, that fiasco would have resulted in shareholders angrily blowing the e-mail inboxes and telephones of every member of the board of directors and Zuckerberg would have resigned in shame years ago.
Yea, don’t really have much sympathy for Meta investors, they continue to give money to a company where the founder has a 51% voting share.
Well, it’s not really a rational world. I mean, Tesla stockholders somehow still want Elon in charge despite sales, brand value, public perception, and product quality declining under his watch.
@dgerard I imagine their users are furious. Both of them
It was still open?
Coulda just thrown money into the money hole
Once again I see more warmth and depth of emotion in that low-poly avatar than in the man it’s based on.
Oh no. Please don’t.
