https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-employees-hit-out-at-mark-zuckerberg-in-blind-reviews-2022-11
all Meta shareholders can do besides sell is have Business Insider publish these articles, because he owns 54% of voting rights
Democracy, but only for the shareholders.
And not even for most of the shareholders.
WHY DO THEY NOT ACCEPT THE METAVERSE
THEY ARE AMUSED BY CRUDE SIMULATIONS OF REALITY, I HAVE WITNESSED IT
IT HAS THE KFC AND THE BEST BUY MERCHANT ENTITIES
WHY DO THEY RESIST
"I'm... Sorry ...." He says as he literally axes the lowest ranking engineers, with an axe
He really seems intent on running Meta into the ground because it seems he'll never admit that the Metaverse is a failure. He'll just keep throwing money at it until it's relatively "stable" and it's no longer a gigantic sinkhole sucking up insane amounts of cash.
Then he'll be smug and he'll pretend that losing all that cash and badly damaging his own company was some kind of brilliant "I'm not a corn cob" strategy. "I toldja I wasn't!"
An apolitical point about metaverses/VR:
As of 2022, they have cool immersive graphics and sound, but movement and haptics are no closer to a solution than they were . The human nervous system is superb at distinguishing what reality it is in; that's its whole thing. Tricking a guy in an armchair into thinking he is running in fields is beyond our art. Maybe neural-jack VR will do it one day.
Modern VR still has potential for enhanced storytelling or gaming, but the issues above set a limit.
For things like business meetings, how is VR better than email? And how much more engineering does it require?
only reason id get a vr headset is cause its a monitor i can strap to my face so i can wear it while laying down and be comfy and not accidentally drop my smartphone on my face or something
Yeah I don't understand the value add.
People have a hard enough time signing in for zoom meetings -- there's no chance you're gonna get everyone on smoothly for VR WiiCorporateMeeting
You need to have a specific type of brain damage where you read a lot of cyberpunk and didn't get it was supposed to be a dystopia, then get really rich by being a STEMlord and screwing over anyone who called you a friend or was loyal to you, then have more money than God but being able to foresee the collapse of your golden goose so you need something else to invest in before it all goes away.
For things like business meetings, how is VR better than email?
If Zuckerberg was at least a little bit sane - he'd simply buy Zoom and stick actual video feeds into the Metaverse. That would be sort of hilarious and everybody would know that it was a strategic retreat from some of the VR stuff but it would be far better than whatever crazy nonsense Zuckerberg has planned.
Zuckerberg starting to push VR meetings in the Metaverse would be insane but it would be on brand for him.
Not really related to metaverse but I've done racing simulations with VR and a full cockpit and yeah, it's amazing and kinda satisfies that physical sensation that you need. I mean, after 5 minutes it kinda tricks your brain into thinking you're really driving that ferrari. It's cool
That's it tho. Using VR as an experiential medium is great! Pretend to fly! Drive a supercar! Hide from a monster! Do one of those VOID VR (before it went bankrupt because COVID) rooms. But there's no value in having a floaty avatar in a meeting vs just doing a zoom call.
VOID VR was very cool. They'd give you a VR set and some props and let you into a room with physical props matching the VR world you were seeing. A stick with a ball on the end could be a torch lighting a dungeon. They could put down wooden planks on the ground and a fan in the wall and make you feel like you were walking across a chasm. The walls of the VR world had physical walls matching them to help sell the experience.
right now Big Tech is in like a Stephen King story where the wish they made for fame and billions of dollars had a devastating catch to it
Why couldn't they get legs figured out? There are indie VR games that have legs, even if they're not tracked with your real legs. VRChat can support real leg tracking and those avatars are just created by modders. Meta couldn't even get fake legs or legs that support tracking with extra hardware?
I've been thinking about that a lot, and it really feels like it's coming from Zuckerberg himself or another relatively untouchable piece of shit VP or whatever- someone is insisting that legs are directly mocapped, and pointing to some distant future release of hardware that will be able to see the legs. And people are too scared to question that decision or they've been beaten down for raising it.
That would imply they plan to have some kind of base station, which goes against their current scheme of goggles-only.
This launch could have been delayed significantly- maybe they thought it would be out already.
And that makes me think they must be planning some kind of fucking living room fixture that is optional but lets you play various games such as dancing games and so on. So the reason they had no legs is to make it a much more obvious difference when they launch their horrific panopticon device.
No legs >> Legs versus Leg Illusion >> Better Leg Illusion
They seemed to have wavered somewhere, because they did that fake video where they have legs. Probably due to all the criticism- they thought they had the leeway to pull off that gimmick but then nobody used the service.
Real spitballing here but it's definitely all in line with how these fuckers are.
