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“Metaverse” is a phrase from a 1994 novel named Snowcrash

Sunsetting procedures are embarrassing. This country's president and children need one as well.

Nicely done. Full points. No notes.

They 'Meta' not do this again. 😏💀

ISWYDT!

Zuck's not very bright.

I cannot possibly overstate yhe degree to which one of the most powerful and evil corps in the world failed to match VR char, a project put together by a bunch of furries in their spare time on zero budget.

Next time the billionaire talks about his "business vision" and his "future successes" of a new project remeber how wrong he got this project that collapsed only 5 years later.

Yeah but with Facebook's reputation, they had to do something :b

nightmare fuel

I thought the idea had legs

Then hopefully entire company can go the way of the Metaverse.

Thoughts and prayers, Zuck

it still might work, Dan

The very definition of going "meta"...

It just never really got its legs under it.

i dont know which company wins the garbage award more: meta or X. lol

This is like if they actually filed the paperwork to rename it IHOB

laid off a lot of people for zucks shit

I guess we should just call them "Failure" to prevent any mistakes from now on

The main hubris of the tech bros is that they believe what they think is cool the public will think is cool. Problem is they are trapped in perpetual adolescence. Expect AI to suffer a similar fate as META. It will never produce enough revenue to justify its cost.

Let’s hope it’s foreshadowing.

Lose the "Meta," it's cleaner.

No one is even going to understand why it’s called WorldBabyCorp now.

future economist will refer to this period as “the shriveling”

They literally launched it during a pandemic and it still failed lmao

Ive never heard of this enterprise but if any young person wants to clue me in, I’d be grateful.

I do not understand how a company can fail at so many projects they've sunk billions of dollars into and still be viable

😂

@rtgame.bsky.social

The irony here is that I knew someone who was so paranoid Meta would personally shut down VRChat on Quest headsets to make metaverse more popular, but it turns out Meta didn't even know it was competing against VRChat at all

😂😂😂😂😂

Yeah! I made the video that I talked about ASL in vrchat! bsky.app/profile/wake...

I think @coopertom.bsky.social did a VR 70’s house, including era appropriate colored shag carpet, bathroom fixtures, and kitchen appliances.

bsky.app/profile/glen...

This reads like the bit in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" where Dr Gonzo, is (unfavourably) comparing the expensive sound system at the cop convention to the cheaply-cobbled-together arrangement at a festival organised by a bunch of acid freaks .....

X_x I can't my pc is craaaap.

Nothing better than having friends with good expressive models and face tracking.

Meta: GAMES IN VR HAVE TO BE SIMPLE! Furries: We made a fishing game world within VR chat that's even more engaging than the already very popular Stardew Valley fishing, it has a million views in a single weekend.

B-b-b-but only capitalism can innovate 😭

If they had given 1/10 of that to a bunch of furry VR developers they would have delivered in spades.

“We’ve rented out an entire city and paid the cops to look the other way. Have fun.”

Invite the investors and they'll give you that money every year

I think the investor money was already squandered in a big "con" without our help

I thought this shut down years ago lol

to be fair, they didn't do that because they believed in it, they changed the name because they were trying to escape culpability for a genocide

Honestly I would rather them have kept perfecting the Metaverse than to go all in on AI and other bullshit. I have to admit I'm a little disappointed

literally

X next

🤣

After all that, the metaverse still doesn't have any legs.

The metaverse could've been a success, if the early demos had just shown people slapping the shit out of Zuckerberg's avatar.

Good bye crappy VR service. I'm surprised it lasted this long.

...and yet, somehow and astonishingly, the widely believed myth that tech bros are geniuses persists. That they somehow have special insight. Lauded as visionaries, they fail in serial fashion and are still treated like every utterance is a TED talk filled with profound wisdom. #EatTheRich

The source of the rebranding might be problematic, but the actual name itself makes great sense and is actually way better than “Facebook” for a parent tech company. Just like Google vs. Alphabet.

Ain't nobody got time for that fake shit

If I spent billions on a failed venture I'd end up in the poor house for the rest of my life

Good riddance

lol. lmao even

When was the last time Meta had a successful idea that wasn't "buy or rip off whoever is lapping us?"

youtu.be/6KHyMISpE18?...

people are not interested in interacting with surround-vision cartoon images of Zuck, contacts' my-princess children and yappy dogs, or batshit theorists, who knew

Who would've guessed spending millions of dollars on a half baked clone of VR chat was a bad idea

the real metaverse was the friends we made along the way

Time to rebrand to MetAI

The second the avatar/metaverse thing was announced, I said to myself, "That sounds stupid. Why would anyone think that sounded fun or useful?" Was it all a money laundering front?

I’m thinking rebrand to Ray Ban Rape Glasses…

I hope my meta quest III vr helmet will still function. I want to use it to play VR Chat and VR games on Steam.

That is true. Government agencies are using facial recognition for nefarious purposes. I’m a federal government retiree. The DOGE boys took my personal data, and I want to sue Trump & Musk for identity theft. We no longer have the right to privacy.

Truly genius work

Instagram and Whatsapp are both Meta and bigger than Facebook these days I think.

yeah I mean I'm not gonna call it the "Facebook Quest" lol.

Well that, but also don't forget they had to distance themselves from the Facebook brand. Still do.

Phillip Morris had a better rebranding

New rebrand incoming

Zuckerberg is only where he is today because he stole other people's work.

Company most known for the perv glasses shuts down world where you can’t be a perv

*he*, not they.

Maybe the metaverse was the friends we made along the way.

i wonder what this image would look like if you ran it through DLSS5

I can't understand why this didn't take off! That looks so cool and fun.

I can't believe prefer to just buy stuff with a single click on Amazon rather than to put on goggles and wave their arms around at invisible shelves with pictures of ketchup and stuff on them

Is anyone surprised about what happens when you’re too afraid to tell your creepy CEO that no one is gonna want to play in his creepy virtual playground for free, let alone spend any money on it? No? Good. Because sometimes I worry I woke up in a stupid parallel universe.

they’re going to have to come up with a new gimmick

Our new AI monorail will solve this.

hope they rename it again. I don't care for the association...

It was such a risk for zero payback.

ahahah

I hear it'll use DLSS 5 to rerender all of reality to remove clothes and add various bits of leather and latex. The "Nebraska Mode" toggle will do the same with barnyard animals.

PervÉ

*Pervect

Peerv

Tronc (wait, no, that one was already tried)

...and is a nod to their founding as a way to perv on their fellow undergrads!

Purv, gotta change the vowel to be hip and cool

Too bad Peepers is already taken

Vaxxed?

in a fairly short time the real world has become so much sh*ttier than it was when they first started out, and yet it's still more appealing than their virtual one

Yeah and now they're firing everyone except the guy who's idea it was.