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

• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  there are other versions of the metaverse that work very well and are making money.

  What do you mean?

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ChatVR, RecRoom, Roblox, BattleBit, Project Loom (Which Google killed for no reason, but it wasn’t because of lack of success), and of course the OG, Second Life.

    Hell you could even make the arguement for Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen if they ever finish it.

    Some of those projects haven’t just been successful they’re so successful that they are starting to affect government policy.

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      How have they affected government policy, beyond Roblox probably causing some laws being passed about exploitation and protection of minors?

      You have a point, I think the big thing FB failed to capitalize on is that someone who wants to use ChatVR or Roblox has to go into chatVR or roblox. FB had an opportunity to build an entire ecosystem they control, and they failed to get anyone inside of it.

      I genuinely have no idea how they managed to spend that much money and not get a single decent app. Horizons literally looked like a tech demo someone slapped together for a gamejam or something.

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    • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You’re just listing random games, none of which are remotely related to the metaverse…

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Do you even know what we’re talking about? Have you ever played any of those games, they are very much in the style of what meta where trying to do.

        If you took Meta’s description of what the “Metaverse” is and then looked at chatVR it’s basically the same product.

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