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Aaaaannnndd...they invented a shitty version of The Sims. Bravo!

This looks like a $20 million project at the highest.

Where are the Meta share holders and pension funds? Apart from building the original stalking women feature of Facebook fuckerberg has doing nothing but burn through money since

And DoGE is destroying lives saving pennies over in the government. They should focus on the real waste

Animated by Wolf Tracer. That's a joke just for Tyler.

I very much doubt he spent 100 thousand million $ on salaries of programmers over the span of 2-3 years. They had 60-80k employees. Not all worked on VR. I am guessing you looked at the market cap that dropped briefly around 2022 when Zuck went full metaverse.

the video was taken down, Meta owns Oculus which is all VR so if this is regarding that I don't see an issue, if you create a VR gaming platform it will cost a lot of money to create the hardware and software.

Lol. Lmao.

This genuinely baffles me. On what? They spent it hiring people? What did those people do? How does 100 billion disappear into a black hole and create absolutely nothing?

i dont respect this decision

She looks like Elsa and Spider-Man’s dentist.

One billion per polygon per frame. Seems fair.

And it still looks like an absolute dogshit, I’m actually impressed

he's going to need this!

And they're shit at it!

This is what happens when really really bad leadership amasses lots and lots of money and power. Keep in mind VR is one of several industries displaying these "race to the bottom" characteristics in the last decade. I can only think this is what critical mass looks like.

Meta proving new science with this funding to quality curve. Escape velocity has been reached

Oh my god they pulled the video???

Embezzling money?

It’s wild that Meta put 100 billion dollars into their Metaverse shit and it still looks astronomically worse than VR chat

Ouch. That hurts. True though.

They could have just bought Spotify and put it on Beat Saber.

Imagine being a multibillion doller corp and blowing 100 billion on shit that horny furries made (better then you, btw) for free.

Where did it go

And yet people continue to scroll mindlessly on facebook and instagram giving him more billions to do this stupid stuff.

Still looks like Lawnmower Man

Every time I see this news, my mind reels with how many ways they could have better spent that much money.

It's like they tried to make more money with a flop than with a hit, Producers-style.

Looks like it’s going well!

Never played the game

Even that just doesn't even put us in the ballpark of tens of billions

Might be time to raise taxes on the wealthy and big corporations

3rd life.

So much money and effort wasted on creating a world that looks less realistic than a kids TV show from 1994 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReBoot

where can i watch the deleted video?

Furries are a dedicated, passionate bunch. They really pour themselves into their niche. And I respect that.

It’s a welfare system for fascist tech flunkies.

100 billion on hardware or 100 billion on software or 100 billion on both, it says meta took down your video on the link.

Oh well, at least it wasn't spent directly om subverting democracy (looking for positives here!)

Sunk cost fallacy on the scale of a GDP of a mid-wealth level nation, resulting in a well-funded broadcast essentially admitting “our work culture is pretty clearly desperate and toxic”

ahhahahaah

Pic unrelated, right? ...right?

Bring back GeoCities! It would be an improvement over this.

Remember a lot of acquisitions are to get the "freedom to act" aka patent acquisitions. Others are just to stop the competition either directly or indirectly. Direct is buy the competitor, indirect is buy something the competitor depends on. This is why we have only three of most anything.

And like Tesla they alienated their core target audience by becoming actively Trump supporters. I'm never buying a set from them.

🎯 Scam of the decade, perhaps the century...

Correct.

Did someone archive the video from their Instagram?

lmao how much do y'all think VRChat spent on VRChat.

If I was super rich I would build a high speed rail system that was the fastest and prettiest in the world, that brought all of American up to the 21st century. I would build massive libraries and learning centers in rural counties, coast to coast accessible bike/hiking paths with hut to hut bars

Let's invent Second Life!

ah, thank you! 🙏

It looks Ike something that would make Gavin Belson furious.

What is that even supposed to be? A skit? An ad? What in the same hell is it advertising?

This has got to be some kind of money-laundering joke, right?

You have one too many zeroes for the headset, tho

(Thank you - #Canada, #Europe, etc.) Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and #Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FD www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

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(This is a rigged 3d exported model) And it's a genuine fucking shock that even in death, corpos will try to make their Avatars look worse than the 2018 Xbox Avatars

There are tradeoffs for sure but I'm happy (and fortunate) with my PSVR2.

I want to waste $100 billion

Parker luckey took all that meta money and not only became an arms dealer also created this www.vice.com/en/article/p...

And there are still no furry avatars only some boring shit. Denied. Using pico 4 for VR.

What a fucking waste.

Meta VR looks as awful as Zuckerberg ethics

Given the history of innovation on the internet, that's probably what it will take for it to improve in quality... (Not saying good or bad, just saying...)

Oh, Britta's in this?

It's a lot but I'm assuming it's the only way Zuckerberg can get people to talk to him and friends are priceless lol

I spent a hundred billion dollars and all I got was this poorly rendered leopard print t-shirt

Thats impressive…….for the early 2000s

Meta is very good at making money and very bad at doing things with it. They bought insta and what’s app and since?

And yet it looks like something out of IMVU still.

My second life character I haven't updated in 4 years looks better.....

I mean, I can see how you could blow $100,000 on this prototype ... *hang on I've just been handed a piece of paper with six zeros written on it*

they should've spent like 10% of that on fun video games and 0% on offputting chat experiences

reminder of the early days www.youtube.com/watch?v=thye...

Lol. Who is going to buy that in this Economy and climate?

What a fucking embarrassment.

Surely this is a money laundering/ tax avoidance scheme?

Imagine describing private sector jobs as higher productivity...

They have too much cash and we should tax that shit to the moon and back.

Meanwhile, over on Second Life, which figured this shit out like 15 years ago...

How lol

Maybe spend some of that money replacing my defective 1 month old Quest 3 instead of the 2.5 weeks and at least 8 different support reps and still no resolution.

Apparently they don't give a shit since they have dropped the translation feature on all Ukrainian accounts

Money is just a concept

Doesn’t look like it

If nothing else, you furries have passion. This was not made by emotion or interest. Just... money.

burnt*

I would like to thank the Meta employees for so obviously sabotaging their efforts so the horror of the Metaverse never comes to pass.

Beautiful.

I always wondered what the guys who made Ratatoing had got up to

Amazing how many other creators can make things better and easier for less.

I played better looking games than this in the 90s on 90s tech.

basically The Meta headsets are the only people actually buy and basically nobody buys anything anything on PCVR so if meta went bankrupt tomorrow from all this VR dies

100% They leave, it dies. There ceases to be a market that supports a game that takes more than 2-3 people eating ramen noodles.

For some scale, *all* of Nintendo was worth $21 billion in 2023.

🎯

But… nobody wants it?

Imagine that amount of USD helping prevent suffering instead.

Incredible... meta's post of this video, on it's own site barely got 200 likes...

Cheers to another $100 billion.

No one is going to join the Appeaserverse.

I find it comforting that such an awful company can't retain competent people.

to what? make it uglier?