[ramesh31]

I've really softened on Zuck in the last couple years. The Metaverse stuff looks stupid from the outside, but all else considered, isn't this exactly what we've been asking for out of FAANG for the last ten years? To put all of these insane resources into something that at least could be a cool future to live in?

I was the biggest skeptic on earth when they bought Oculus, and assumed it was the death of VR. But they've been steadily grinding at it, and the newly released Meta Pro is, as someone with extensive experience with all of the consumer headsets, the first product that looks like an actual generational leap above the initial headsets. They are really nailing the big problems with VR, which are control (the inside-out tracked controls with Meta Pro are an industry first), and form factor ease of use.

Look at what literally every other company is doing right now. Apple's keynotes consist of new emojis and better cameras. Google I/O is literally just an ad for GCP at this point. Amazon isn't even trying to pretend they are doing anything innovative, beyond adding to the AWS hairball. I think Zuck has about a 5% chance of success here, but the fact that he's trying something new is better than anything else in tech ATM.

[danuker]

As long as the VR that Zuck is building is just another walled garden, I am not at all interested.

Why wouldn't I play Minetest, OpenTTD, or whatever other social videogame for which I can host a server myself?

I see little value in artificial scarcity coupled with complete surveillance, and awkward and expensive hardware requirements.

[fomine3]

Yeah, I don't like Meta but it's great that they heavily invest their profit to xR/"metaverse". I don't know will finally "metaverse" used well , but it's exciting to see growing.

[flashgordon]

Yeah the lemonade I am hoping to see here is this can actually result in hardware commoditazion and accelerate research in a bunch of other areas.