• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    VR isn’t a bad idea.

    …Zuckerberg is just an idiot.

    That’s really what it comes down to. Facebook has some neat branches and employees, but at the end of the day, its head decision maker is chronically flakey and makes catastrophically bad financial choices, repeatedly.

    He’s just so freaking rich it doesn’t even matter.

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      I still remember the original Metaverse pitch basically being ‘We’re going to copy VRChat but without any of the bits people enjoy’

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        Having only seen videos of VR Chat, your avatar can be a 6 foot penis or a anime girl or a skeleton with a trumpet. And I think Metaverse was trying to provide that for businesses and the general public?

        How can you create a social hub where you can’t be a 6 foot penis?

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        And, in practice, take forever, don’t really promote it, and make it look like no one at Facebook has ever laid eyes on a video game.

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      He’s so stupid if he really thought companies were willing to buy a VR headset for every employee so they can go to virtual meetings (like actual meetings are not already a chore)

      Oh and add to that stupidity the fact that almost every company refused to keep working from home after the pandemic

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        Oh and add to that stupidity the fact that almost every company refused to keep working from home after the pandemic

        Including Facebook.

        Zuck loves a bandwagon.

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      Yeah, I don’t like the idea that failed ideas are a waste, because that kind of thinking stifles technological advancement.

      I do like thinking that we can have both technological advancement and healthcare.