So, they were still throwing tons of resources into this years after it flopped?
Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts
Submitted 3 weeks ago by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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skooma_king@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
~40000 people playing VRChat right now FYI.
urandom@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
To what are they gonna rename the company now?
TheColonel@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
SLOP
bytesonbike@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Meta is now SLOP:
Social media Large Learning Models Online Engagement Pedo support
I’m Mark Zuckerfuck and I suck.
ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
AI
maxie@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Microsoft too.
They flip flop over if gaming is important to them all the time.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nothing of value was lost
MurrayL@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
bytesonbike@discuss.online 2 weeks 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.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
My man what are you on they sold out to Meta, they 100% knew what they were getting into, and have been well compensated for it.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
All 3 users will be angry
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Yeah but on the plus side, Zuckerberg will have less underage girls to groom
bytesonbike@discuss.online 2 weeks 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.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I mean there’s always be vrchat, Which is basically what meta was trained to do but actually works.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Well they gave it their best shot. It was literally impossible for them to have produced a more compelling product. That would have required skill and talent
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s probably a lot of lost jobs.
TehWorld@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I expect that everyone there has seen this coming for ages now.
bitcrafter@programming.dev 2 weeks 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!
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
they took the meta out of Meta 🤣
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Even better they should sell the oculus tech to someone else who might give a damn.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Hey Suckerberg, how’s “the future of the Internet” working out for ya?
C1pher@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why not shut it all down?
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I do like the idea of business people doing business in a VR boardroom instead of flying all over the place and wasting company money on hotels and fine dining. Nothing to do with meta but how a VR tool can be used for things other than gaming.
I bought a Quest 3s about a year ago and am an old school, single-player gamer. Meta sure tried hard to get me to socialize and meet “friends” while VR’ing but I was never interested. Also, because of the whole surveillance layer built into new tech I worry about my interior spatial domicile information being exposed. Not that there is a big secret in a house floor plan but I just don’t like people sneakily looking at my shit.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I do like the idea of business people doing business in a VR boardroom instead of flying all over the place and wasting company money on hotels and fine dining. Nothing to do with meta but how a VR tool can be used for things other than gaming.
Sure but I fear that they all feel so important that they won’t use it.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Sigh…I agree.
Aljernon@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Zuckerberg got lucky once, used the talents of others to capitalize on that luck. If he was smart, he would have quickly retired and set about enjoying his wealth but instead he’s wasted small fortunes running Facebook. Got high on his own supply when really he was never especially talented at anything.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I want cloud gamified LLM GenAI NFT Cryptocurrency Neural network IoT Web3 Metaverse!