Meta's vision for the metaverse is an 'old idea' that's 'never worked,' tech CEO says

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If there was a killer feature, they'd probably be talking about it :P

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Exactly. Personally I think FB is boned, but who knows what they'll pull out of their ass.

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"It's an old idea," Libin told Insider. "It's uncreative, it's been tried many, many times over the past four decades and it's never worked."

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The same could've be said about the Facebook though.

These things often need a little something else to make them work.

With Facebook I think it was the competitive element, people were rating each other's photos in the early days.

If they don't find a similar draw for the metaverse then they won't get normies using it.

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Phil Libin is the CEO of a rival company. Facebook is muscling into his territory.

He and his employees at videoconference company Mmhmm, where he is CEO, were trying out Meta’s Horizon Workrooms product. Horizon Workrooms lets people use VR headsets for virtual work meetings in the so-called metaverse.

Libin said his gut instinct turned out to be correct. “It was only tolerable for a few minutes,” he said.

He believes that using VR for meetings is less enticing than familiar technologies such as Zoom, where people can still do real-world things like drinking a cup of coffee. “Can’t do that with a giant plastic thing on my face without spilling hot coffee all over myself,” Libin said.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I would love to watch Zuckerberg face plant and all the Claifornicating blue lefties that moved here to jack up our real estate prices and work remotely get fired.