Facebook gives a glimpse of metaverse, its planned virtual reality world

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Critical tim333 · 2021-10 · on “The metaverse is bullshit”

The metaverse singular seems an odd concept. There will be all sorts of virtual worlds where you can socialise with other real people through VR avatars as there already are such as Second Life, World of Warcraft, Fortnite and so on. Also I guess Minecraft? Whether Meta will be able to dominate the scene if the way they do photo sharing I dunno. Their demo video doesn't enthuse me ( [this video] ). I guess they may be able to work the network thing - I put my photos in insta/fb because thats where my friends/family are. But will I go on Meta to chat to mum? Probably not. I think text messaging/phone are fine for that.

Critical spywaregorilla · 2022-07 · on “Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR”

The problem is that VR sucks and there's no way around that with the current trajectory of tech. Take this cringey "demo" from meta: [this video] It's not possible. It's just not possible with the tech we have or will have any time soon. Start with 35 seconds in. Person on the right is floating legs out. This is impossible. It's possible to render that, but it's impossible to feel like you're floating in that position. We can ignore the presumed motion sickness. The video heavily implies that is her reality. But it's not. We cannot achieve the kind of presence you see in this or other popular things like ready player one. What is she really doing in the real world. Sitting down? Standing up? Mark

Critical spywaregorilla · 2022-09 · on “Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team”

Execute to me would be providing the user experience they're showing in their own videos, many of which are simply not possible with headset technology. [this video] Just a ton of little things. Woman floating horizontally in space. Possible to render. Not possible to convey to the player. Cards, basically impossible to actually have cards that have good physics in a networked game like that. The smooth floaty motion and spinning is particularly dumb.

Critical ath3nd · 2025-09 · on “Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war”

> Zuckerberg rushing into every new fad with billions of dollars has somehow tricked people into thinking that's what big tech is about and all of them should be shovelling money into this. Zuckerberg failed every single fad he tried. He's becoming more irrelevant every year and only the company's spoils from the past (earned not less by enabling, for example, a genocide to be committed in Myanmar [LINK] ) help carry them through to the series of disastrous idiotic decision Zuck is inflicting on them. - VR with Oculus. It never caught on, for most people who own one, it's just gathering dust. - Metaverse. They actually spend billions on that? [this video] - LLAMA is absolute trash, a dumpster fir