1.2 billion metaverse only has 38 users.

at least with second life you can run across a chair having s*x with an orca

VRchat already existed and, while degenerate, is not a soulless corporate wasteland developed by cryptoboomers and is on an engine with no learning curve and massive amounts of learning resources and content.

Given a choice between the two, people are going to obviously pick the one with gmod levels of content customization instead of the proprietary rugpull hellscape

No no no it's totally different. You have to wear a bulky headset so they're actually nothing alike.

With the money they have they literally could have bought Linden Labs and had enough left over to implement VR, which who tf knows some Second Life sperg might have already done this.

Between this and Stadia it's been a hilarious week for tech ghouls getting BTFO.

The end goal seems to be turning the internet into a giant shopping mall that people will spend their life living and consooming in, under the guise of decentralization.

It's the same kind of reason Alexa exists. People like scifi concepts without thinking whether they're actually useful or not. Saying 'computer, turn on the lights' is cool and Star Trek-y but actually is less useful than just pressing a lightswitch. There's absolutely nothing going for some VR universe other than that it sounds cool and futuristic but that's not how you build an actually useful product.

capitalism is unable too lift everypony out of poverty into lives of abundance ...

so the zuck thinks replacing reality with the virtual is best.

trans lives matter, jew lives don't

Second life but all corpo and tidy and shit.

this r-slurred metaverse shit is just second-life right? why the frick would people invest a billion dollars into it

Yes, and no. It's second life without the charm, and there's not really a billion dollars, that number leans heavily on their internet funbux price which, as we all know, are almost entirely illusory.

We all laughed

I think half of the people on rdrama were not even born then :-€

What happened to Pets.com?

It's value free real estate

Or Runescape or trade skins in CS:GO or in Eve Online or whatever. Lol why don't these people realize all the things they are doing have been done and better? Trans lives matter

What? You telling me I bought this NFT for 2000$ and it will not sell for 50000$ in the near future?

sell a kidney to get a balmung plot

Because it's lame as heck

I assumed it was still in closed beta, accessible only to Twitter bluechecks

And anyone who has has only seen a constant stream of "Meta bad" articles

Don't you have Facebook?

I saw a year ago that dolce and gabbanna sold a dress that came with a "metaverse version" of it and I spent like a day trying to figure out what that meant.

What platform? What functionality? Which blockchain? What format is it delivered in?

I think I got through like 10 articles and the official press release before I realized I don't think they themselves even knew what that meant

Literally just take 10m of that 1.2 billion budget and pay 1000 streamers $10k to play it and it would end up with an insane number of users trying to stalk their favorite parasocial friend

How is it even possible to frick up this badly?

It’s worth 1.2b dramarubles

They wasted 1.2bn in diversity hires and buying oculus.

Lol.

https://i.insider.com/6300ba0ac2794d00197edf21?width=1136&format=jpeg

You may not like it but this is what peak 2022 future looks like.

A guy who worked there, the late Shamus Young wrote a long piece at some point (I can't find it in 60 seconds searching) about how worlds.com got started and their plan for how it would work as a business and why it's all fundamentally r-slurred and not something that people want. And that is exactly what I think of every time I hear about the "Metaverse".

Zuck said it himself no one over 27 ever has any good ideas

Detrans lives matter

There is absolutely nothing new or innovative about Facebook's metaverse. They are not even first to the market. Zuck is trying to create something that already exists (Second Life, VRchat) but failing at it.

It's one thing to fail at a concept that has never been tried before or a new technology. It's another to frick up something that has repeatedly been shown as only having niche appeal.

You are saying the same thing I did but trying to pretend like you have some extra secret knowledge.

Nah this is the same dumb shit as nfts, just shit meant to make easy money by getting gullible r-slurs to buy it with no actual use or value

ii don't even consume mainstream fiction. netflix boom gave people a burnout

Bleh, I read meta and assumed it was the Facebook thing. Lucky for me my comment is still technically true.