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by Helitico 1464 days ago
Good if someone like him cares about something.

It would be much greater if he actually cared for society and would fix what he did with facebook, addicted mobile/facebook games and fake news.

But hey now the poor can have a 1-2k high quality VR Headset with full immersion to see others in a VR Chat while living in a dumpster.

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On a more non emotional side: Of course i like the idea of a high quality VR Headset but i'm not sure what FB thinks what this will do for FB. Those millions/billions they invested in their Metaverse will not become something great.

I'm still very confinced that VR is a novelity and nothing people will just be in all day long. Why would they?

Lets compare it to others:

Apple key notes are about new hardware, new usability.

Google IO has a ton of diversity, doing things for society. They talk about taking good pictures of people with all type of skin tones. They talk about 24/7 sustainability, better and easier security, protecting their users, skin mold detection and they have android.

What is Meta talking about? How to put all of us into a VR world with probably a ton of monetarization. Awesome \o/ the poor who can't afford their own house/home are then sitting in a cheap/bad flat, sitting in a chair with a VR Headset on?

And of course there will be a handful people playing around with this, but you know Second Live is also probably still running...

Google is one of the few companies were their Keynotes are so boring because they actually fix real life boring shit which affects us all.

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There exist people now who spend all of their sleeping time, and the majority of their waking time in primitive virtual environments while wearing incommensurately cheap hardware, speaking with almost nobody, over Internet connections barely fit for the task of voice, let alone streaming video. There exists appeal, for a few. You can do a lot with an avatar making one of two faces.
Depressing somehow.

As said, imagine we would spend our energy in our society to actually bring poeple back together.

Social hubs just in a way that people want to go there. Imagine what you could build up with that money