Remember when everyone made fun of Second Life? Now the people who made it don’t need to feel embarrassed anymore because at least they weren’t involved in Metaverse. If you were involved with both, there’s no salvation left.
remember 6 years ago when everyone was saying ‘learn to code’?
now what?
Go to a trade school
16k souls about to lay for his continued mistakes https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/meta-job-layoffs-artificial-intelligence-b2938715.html
There really should be consequences for top leadership when even 1% of the company has to go. I’m a businessperson. When you lay off a bunch of people it’s not because you suddenly discovered smarter ways to work in your industry.
95% of the time, It’s because you planned poorly. 5% of the time, events that could not have been planned for derail things.
If the workers have to suffer consequences for the organization to survive, fine. Take out the leadership who sent the company down the tubes with their orders in the first place.
but unfortunately mark has complete control and his board has no power
100% agreed
It doesn’t matter now. All those idiots who wrote books about how good the mataverse was, how it was going to change our lives, how we will be able to talk to costumer support in a virtual office from our house… all those people who wrote about it did the leap to talk about AI and now are writing about how good AI is… goshhhh
can’t wait for current AI hype bubble to burst. Not neccesarily have AI stop being relevant, just have it stop being forced into everything.
ahh the schadenfreude… 😈
We have had Meta headsets for a couple years. Still don’t know what the “metaverse” is. The headsets are fun, though.
Those lobsters should have top hats and monocles.
Not everything has to be so realistic.
Can’t believe they really rebranded around this shit when we all knew it was a nonsense non-concept five years ago, lmao
well we need to remember they changed their name to meta after zucc went to the senate due to the Cambridge Analytica scandal
motherfuckers could probably have ended hunger in their country for that kind of money.
that’s how much of a piece of shit this pedophile nazi is.
I think that would end all poverty in the entire world
They lose $80B and are still in business? That’s insane.
Not only that, their company is worth over $500B more than it was when they rebranded as Meta. They were valued around $1T at the time and around $1.5T today. So they have completely failed to accomplish anything of value or substance, anything that improves life for anybody, or anything at all related to their entire metaverse concept in that time, and yet the market has deemed that they should continue to skyrocket in value.
Also, there are still people dying of hunger.
Gotta pad that balance sheet with losses. Can’t be paying taxes if you can write off speculative ventures that just might
pay offfund other misadventures.
Not only was the entire project thing a completely repulsive, uncanny mess, but also they could’ve just bought roblox for half that amount which is effectively the closest thing to a “metaverse” but ig zuck ego wouldn’t allow that
Buying real estate in the Metaverse used to be compared to buying land on the moon. But Zuck can’t turn off the moon, so it’s arguably a better investment.
For everyone who never tried it, they had honest to god paid employees in Horizon Worlds to help players get oriented. I cannot imagine a worse job.
The one I ran into was standing in front of some “game” experience that was like…jumping on tiles or some shit.
But I thought the whole line was “hOrIzOn WoRlDs iSnt the MeTaVeRsE.”
Followed by no explanation of what the metaverse is.
Finally it can be explained: 1) Dig a ditch, 2) Dump in $80B, 3) Light it on fire.
