Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic

  • Sigmatics@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I still think it’s hilarious that Facebook renamed to Meta, and anything they did with the “metaverse” was a huge failure. It’s like they didn’t learn their lesson from Second Life.

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      1 year ago

      They should have learned a lesson from Second Life. It was so much graphically better, more sophisticated and immersive even in 2d .

      Users had a world where they could build, interact, buy land, make, buy, sell items and art, go to concerts, have virtual sex, attend classes, build a castle , explore, etc, etc. It would have been awesome in 3d.

      This was like 20 years ago! Meta had such an opportunity there but instead had half avatars and chat rooms. It sucked.

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        1 year ago

        A lot of it comes down to the Quest processors as they are just not very powerful. It had to be backwards comparable with the 835 Snapdragon processor form the Quest 1 and that is a 2016 processor. Makes senses it was so basic as they wanted to have many avatars on screen at once so things had the get cut…like legs. Ahahahaha.

        I am not defending Meta, but just stating the facts and one of those facts is Zuck has said this is a long game and that it will be at least a decade before the Metaverse becomes something half compelling. I agree with that assessment. It is just not there today, but it will be.