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by idiomaticrust 1138 days ago
I think it was in Masters of Doom - Carmack was dreaming about a metaverse build on Quake 1.

The game can be a starting point.

I would say that Fortnite is 100x better starting point for the metaverse than what Meta did - the game engine that looked like a 2009 product.

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I dunno, their more recent results are pretty impressive: https://twitter.com/AiBreakfast/status/1652121065194409985

People like to dog on their early marketing material, but it's not exactly a far cry from Animojis or Samsung's equivalent Memoji garbage. In this case, it looks like Meta took the criticism to heart and used it to develop something much more advanced.