Hate the way he goes all in on liberal capitalism will save the world in Termination Shock, so grim lol
I have a friend who works on the metaverse and they describe thew atmosphere as stoned people fully expecting the whole thing to collapse at some point
"Mom, can we have Horizon: Zero Dawn?"
"No, we have Horizon at home."
The Horizon at home:
Did Meta expect this to impress? Well—it didn’t. Instead, the cheerful message about impending appendages was met with mockery. Legs couldn’t save Horizon Worlds’ crumbling reputation. Meta had spent $36 billion to morph into a metaverse company, to manifest an immersive, globally accessible virtual-reality world that runs permanently alongside this one. Yet Horizon Worlds was a glitchy ghost town. The people who did use it were creeps or children (even though they’re technically not allowed). Not even Meta’s own employees took to it. Here was one of the most powerful corporations on the planet pouring Bond-villain-level resources into the creation of its next transformative tech project … **and the best it could do appeared to be a janky Second Life knockoff nobody likes. **
About time journalists started comparing it to Second Life. I've been saying it can only amount to a janky VR version of Second Life for years now as it serves no real purpose other than novelty. Without fulfilling a need, your product is a novelty. It's the equivalent of all the junk you see in those gadget shops that people buy, use once and then never use again.
I love it because so many people made so much money on Facebook but it's not enough, it has to continue to grow, so instead of letting the thing die a graceful swan's death and wind down over a decade or whatever they completely reorient the company into turning the entire physical world into Facebook lol. Which according to SV brain is a reasonable thing to want and something a bunch of CS nerds with a billion dollars can actually do.
