Comment on Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts

• bytesonbike@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My brother in arms, my heart goes to you. I know it sucks.

  Never fall in love with your work, ever. Metaverse and VR has always been a neat niche piece of tech.

  As a dev, make the thing for that money, and always be ready to jump ship.

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• makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The metaverse was always going to be a flop.

  I get why devs jumped in, for that sweet Facebook cash injection.

  But, gotta be realists here. It was always going to fail, and it was easy free money until that point.

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  • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Always. Buying hardware from Facebook just feels gross to a lot of people, even those that dont even really care about privacy.

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• BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ll celebrate every aspect of the scam that is Metaverse and the oculus rift dying off.

  Like any other studio bought by a big corporation this is the inevitable outcome and I wish the best for the employees that had no say in the matter.

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• Chozo@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It's not like Meta just shut down some random game studios. They chose to get into bed with Meta. This was the most predictable outcome.

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