Hey Suckerberg, how’s “the future of the Internet” working out for ya?
Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts
Submitted 1 day ago by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Etterra@discuss.online 45 minutes ago
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 23 hours ago
Who cares about billions of dollars wasted on the last profitless scheme when there is a whole new profitless scheme to dumb money into? Line goes up!
bytesonbike@discuss.online 3 hours ago
I want cloud gamified LLM GenAI NFT Cryptocurrency Neural network IoT Web3 Metaverse!
urandom@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
To what are they gonna rename the company now?
TheColonel@reddthat.com 5 hours ago
SLOP
bytesonbike@discuss.online 3 hours ago
Meta is now SLOP:
Social media Large Learning Models Online Engagement Pedo support
I’m Mark Zuckerfuck and I suck.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
All 3 users will be angry
titanicx@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Actually one of them was supernatural. And that is a massive community there is some massive blowback going with regards to that. My significant other being one of those people so I’ve heard a lot about it over the last 24 hours seeing all the posts seen post from all the coaches that were involved that have gotten laid off and just one of the communities on Facebook is somewhere in the neighborhood of 170,000 people.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Yeah but on the plus side, Zuckerberg will have less underage girls to groom
bytesonbike@discuss.online 3 hours ago
I’m actually kinda angry. There was a lot of money being thrown at this metaverse thing, and I wanted to milk that sweet Facebook money for as long as I can.
maxie@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Companies like meta and Amazon can’t be trusted with gaming, it’s just a silly side project to them. If I was working at a studio acquired by either I would be shit scared for the studios longevity.
bytesonbike@discuss.online 3 hours ago
I remember when Amazon went all-in on gaming. Everyone was skeptical, and they partnered up with so many Asian companies.
Then they pulled out. Then they pulled back in. And now they’re kinda in a weird place.
bytesonbike@discuss.online 3 hours ago
Microsoft too.
They flip flop over if gaming is important to them all the time.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Yeah time to start saving as much as you can if they buy you, if you weren’t already doing so.
Then you’ll at least have something for when the inevitable comes.
skooma_king@piefed.social 23 hours ago
So, they were still throwing tons of resources into this years after it flopped?
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
“Flop”, to me, implies some sort of jump. “Metaverse” just kinda rolled off the edge of a cliff immediately, like a dog shitting on a frozen hill.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 22 hours ago
Oh look, that completely predictable outcome of an obviously stood fucking idea, that people still felt the need to argue with me about so many years ago despite it being obviously doomed for failure.
Can Facebook unsteal the name now?
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I’ve always appreciated that they stole the name from Snow Crash. Like Zuck completely unironically named his company after a technological dystopian hellscape infected with a virus that destroys people’s brains. Honestly, I don’t think there’s a better name for Facebook.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 18 hours ago
Did he say he named it for that? Bc I can totally believe he has no idea what Snow Crash is.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 11 hours ago
completely predictable outcome of an obviously stupid fucking idea
Nah, it could have worked if Meta started by
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sell the hardware to businesses and schools at a loss, with a requirement users be able to take the sets home.
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Publish standards to allow all apps to have multiplayer and compatible full body avatars, same control scheme, movement, etc.
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buying up VRChat and any other apps with a large user base, refactoring them for compatibility.
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Develop and release free multiuser apps, from virtual office/meetings to virtual movies to home decor.
Somehow FB didn’t even try to exploit the same effects that forced everyone into Apple, MS, and FB.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2 hours ago
No. The entire concept is just dumb. Adding less efficient means of doing things isn’t a selling point.
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frog_brawler@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Wait, hold up, are you telling me that you knew no one would want to wear a headset to join a 90’s style AOL chat room?
FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
~40000 people playing VRChat right now FYI.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 16 hours ago
You’d think they would lose a lot of money making all those shit investments, but then America is the upside down and nothing makes sense over there.
Aielman15@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It’s a bug in our simulation. If you’re poor and you lose a little money, you go bankrupt. But if you’re rich and you burn a fuckton of money, you can buffer overflow into richness and go back on top.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Even better they should sell the oculus tech to someone else who might give a damn.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Nothing of value was lost
MurrayL@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Fuck off, sincerely. It’s hard enough out there for game devs as it is without heartless idiots online celebrating the demise of their studios.
bytesonbike@discuss.online 3 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.
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 23 hours 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.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 23 hours 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.
Chozo@fedia.io 20 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.
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 19 hours ago
they took the meta out of Meta 🤣
C1pher@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Why not shut it all down?
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
That’s probably a lot of lost jobs.
TehWorld@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
But also 100% predictable. Sad, but not unexpected.
For reference, I could absolutely take a job in the next couple weeks with a $50k signing bonus where I get to shoot people in the face with impunity, but I also know that the Nuremberg Trials were a thing. Also, I’m not a horrible human.
Etterra@discuss.online 44 minutes ago
I expect that everyone there has seen this coming for ages now.
bitcrafter@programming.dev 36 minutes ago
Thank goodness there was nothing more useful we could have done as a society with all of the tens of billions of dollars that was spent on this project, or it would have been an incredible waste!