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The Long Farewell to Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/...vr-horizon-worlds.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

But in recent months, Meta laid off 10 percent of its employees in the division that works on the metaverse and said its flagship Horizon Worlds app, a digital universe where people socialize through their avatars, was turning its focus away from virtual reality.
This week, Meta delivered a near death blow. On Tuesday, the company said people would no longer be able to access the immersive world through virtual-reality headsets starting on June 15.
Then on Wednesday, Meta walked that back — but only to a point. It said that it would continue to support some existing V.R. apps in Horizon Worlds, but that it would not add new ones.

In other words, Mr. Zuckerberg’s original conception of the metaverse is effectively over.
 
Man, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible these executives can be when that inner con-artist kicks in.

The idea that people were all going to migrate to hanging out in VR and spend real money on NFT scam garbage so Meta could make all the money by selling you nothing (but with a serial number!) and making all the money forever and ever because you can always buy another nothing (but with a different serial number!) and wait to see if that ones value goes up.
 
Twisted Kidney said:
Man, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible these executives can be when that inner con-artist kicks in.

The idea that people were all going to migrate to hanging out in VR and spend real money on NFT scam garbage so Meta could make all the money by selling you nothing (but with a serial number!) and making all the money forever and ever because you can always buy another nothing (but with a different serial number!) and wait to see if that ones value goes up.
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Don't forget data mining the shit out of you:
  • Name - check!
  • Address - check!
  • Credit Card - check!
  • Shopping habits - check!
  • Interests - check!
  • Retina scan - check!
Strap this on your head to enter Pimpleberg!
 
So does this mean their VR headset, which I presume only work with their client due to how cheap they were, are going to become ewaste?
 
Even though many are glued to their phones, nobody wants a VR headset glued to their foreheads all day.
 
it's not just Meta, VR as a whole never took off...all the companies that bet big on VR are taking a hit
 
polonyc2 said:
it's not just Meta, VR as a whole never took off...all the companies that bet big on VR are taking a hit
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Isn't this like the third vr boom too? Albeit bigger than the others got. I guess that counts for something.
 
They should have listened to John Carmack. One day we'll have a legit Metaverse like in Snow Crash, but I doubt some corpos will ever be able to pull it off.
 
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