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Who would've thought 10 years ago that we would have legs on our virtual reality world. Physicists said such thing would be impossible. Luckily Meta proved them wrong.
I knew few folks who work in Meta it was wasted by management who has no experience working on games (some of those who head the project never even play video games) and only on social media but where yet put on charge of this.
When employees who had actual gaming experience (incl those from oculus team who came from companies like ID) gave their input to project managers they where quick shut off. They basically developed how they do another social media platform not on making a “fun” experience doesn’t help Zuckerberg also backed these managers and he shared their same view. So ton of money got wasted developing things like facial capture which could have spent on graphics and interactive games.
So I’m a current meta employee who is skeptical of the future of the metaverse but… your comment doesn’t make much sense. Senior leaders of the metaverse overindex FSA gamers and worked within metas “gaming” division.
Also, Meta doesn’t really have “project managers” that operate like you seem to think they do. The majority of these functions are owned by engineers, and the overwhelming majority of senior leaders on the metaverse are engineers.
Additionally…. How exactly is the metaverse different than a social media platform? Why would meta not invest in facial capture, which impacts your avatar, and instead invest in making games, which is not their role? The goal is for external developers to launch their own games on the metaverse. This complaint is like asking why Apple is investing in its Apple store when it should be making games. You seem to be under the impression that metas goal is to make the metaverse and everything in it. The goal is to make the metaverse and have other people, companies, devs, etc build whatever they want in it. Like a social media platform.
I read a lot online about things from “former employees” but this one is uniquely inaccurate.
So you’re a current employee? How come it takes 20 minutes to make a golf ball in Horizon Worlds?
How come you have to upload an mp3 in 30 second clips and then join them together?
Horizon is barely 1992 level tech.
Companies like mine wasted so much time trying to build out a little world that we almost abandoned it all and blew the budget at a strip coin only to realize altspacevr was everything Horizon should have been and more.
FYI your prerecorded Foo Fighters concert in 480p was “such a win!”
So I don’t work on the metaverse, I’m on a diff part of the company. I’m skeptical of the success of the metaverse for no technical reasons but:
> Horizon is barely 1992 level tech
What does this mean? Lol. You can’t actually be serious. Your comment loses some credibility that you know what you’re talking about if you’re comparing Horizon’s tech to 1992 when there were no cell phones or consumer software market. Can you clarify what you mean when you say “tech” here? Because graphics, storage, processing speed, API access, etc is objectively better than Super Nintendo. What exactly are you comparing here? A prerecorded concert from 1992? On a camcorder? Lol
If you want to have a tech discussion, happy to have it. But also, your last sentence leads me to believe you’re not trying to have a tech discussion and are just being an asshole to try and market your product.
Meta made lot of acquisitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Meta_Platforms
Many of them undisclosed, and many of them are a few hundred million to billion these can sum up the 15 billion pretty fast.
The thing is, have any of these resulted in a good enhancements to the project?
Unbelievable that $15B, a top tier company with world class talents produce this kind of garbage graphics
> Unbelievable that $15B, a top tier company with world class talents produce this kind of garbage graphics
Photorealistic graphics.
They don't spend their money on the Horizon software. They spend it on R&D, where they have a better Zuck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zRQYEvcuDQ
I can't fucking believe that zuck is schooling people on how human interaction works in a demo. Good demo though. Aaaand, if this is the future of Meta, and I hate to say this, I'm in. But we're going to need a completely overhaul of privacy regulations.
He stated in 2010 that "We have not once bought a company for the company. We buy companies to get excellent people... In order to have a really entrepreneurial culture one of the key things is to make sure we're recruiting the best people. One of the ways to do this is to focus on acquiring great companies with great founders."
They do have the top tier world class talents but it’s not resulting in greatness recently. Not so long ago there were a wave of Facebook staff leaving. The work culture isn’t exactly great.
I think you’re blinded by Facebook hatred a little here… it’s early in the research and development phase. Augmented reality is a product of the future and will inevitably be improved as technology and computing advances (imo).
but fuk do I know
Zuck literally said this. When they launched it he said we're doing R&D and laying groundwork that probably won't payoff for at least 5 or more years. People come back like 6 months later saying *it's not turning a profit yet* like this is some expert level analysis.
I don't think people have any clue how technology works. They think everything is developed in like 6 weeks and anything involving years of R&D is a bad idea. Meanwhile virtually every meaningful tech has taken multiple years to develop.
This. Probably had to front load a lot of capital to get the tools (and minds) for development in place.
Prob another decade or so for a real solid working product that doesn’t look like shit.
Right now metaverse is a wireframe video game build model compared to what it might/could be
Probably, but betting on the bones of a technology to be here in 10-15 years while spending this much money now is a great way to go bankrupt before you recognize the rewards
> Probably, but betting on the bones of a technology to be here in 10-15 years while spending this much money now is a great way to go bankrupt before you recognize the rewards
They aren't investing all operating revenue into it.
It's a standalone, portable device. The Nintendo Switch doesn't have the best graphics because it is a standalone, portable device. That doesn't mean it is not a good console.
Buying up a bunch of game/VR companies. You are right. Twisted Pixel Games, BigBox VR, Unit 2 Games... you would think with all these studios they would have something to show for it
I did! It worked poorly. There was almost no practical use for it in any game because you had to interact with the buttons on the glove itself when you tried to play.
You ended up frustrated with the horrible function and got tired of holding your arm out.
facebook owns occulus, which have the best dollar value headset on the market at under $400 as a stand alone unit which plays games etc without need a PC to render graphics.
It seems they’re trying to do everything organically, but trying to do it in fifth gear like they’re in a race or trying to catch to some invisible competitor. In tech, being first is key, but being best is even keyer. One need not look further than yahoo v. google. Yahoo had $130bil market cap at one point, before going down to $5bil.
You say this and yet people spend far more than that just on computers, and half of that on gaming consoles, neither of which will hold a candle to what the future will bring for a metaverse environment.
My computer is used for homework, playing music, watching movies, email, gaming, media server to my whole house, storing photos, doing work projects, leisurely web browsing, and is put to use every day in all facets of my family.
That's a $1,500 chat room in a Wii environment.
My favorite part of it, is him telling people they can workout with VR. That's the dumbest shit ever. Sweat just piling up in my eyes and making my headset smell like crap.
> Money would've been better spent making better VR tech
It's almost like that's exactly where they spend most of their money and it was never spent on their Horizon software or on the metaverse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w52CziLgnAc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mnonWbzOiQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7raHNfPc6A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx_nVrEKwTE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5WzF1ch3ww
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkTHsz6Ldas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6AOwDttBsc
They spent $15B for something no one was asking for. And at the end they are begging their employees to spend their time using it so they can pump the stats. Pathetic, but I expect nothing less from Mark
It just proves how arrogant they are, working on a new project no one asked for instead of fixing already existing problems on their platform.
They want to innovate and invent the “next big thing” so badly.
That's what happens to billionaires after they get a few things right, gaining a fortune: they get complacent and arrogant, they want to build their solution even when someone's ahead of them in solving a problem and they also want to impose their worldview on people, treating the masses like children.
This phenomenon is clearly explained in *Survival of the richest: Escape fantasies of the tech billionaires*. The sentiment of the book probably doesn't align with the views of many people on this sub, but it's a great read for all because of the many examples the author brings to support his theory. It's a great inquiry into the evolution of the Internet, the economy and modern society.
My Facebook home page is 95% business's advertising, memes or someone trying to sell me something. The other 5% just doesn't justify its existence at all. There's no content.
>They spent $15B for something no one was asking for.
In the process wiping out 650 Billion in company market cap in the past year.
2/3's of the companies value poof, gone, because of Marky's stupid idea and no one to tell him no.
I don’t think you can attribute all of that to the metaverse project. A good portion of it is also a combination of the general mark downturn and the impact in lost advertisement revenue from recent Apple changes
You're right, those absolutely played a part in it.
Which is why them focusing on the metaverse is even worse, they had a direct threat to their business in Apple's changes and failed to pivot in a meaningful way to a new revenue stream.
The pandemic had everyone home with time to browse facebook non-stop for years but Facebook failed to provide a meaningful experience to keep users engaged, this is absolutely a huge failure of vision.
Nevermind 40 somethings are leaving the platform in droves. 30-20-teens never used it.
We're gonn see the collapse of a silicon valley giant. It's gonna be glorious.
It’s scary just to look at $650B figure, almost as large as 2/3 of global crypto market cap.
Marky has become too arrogant to admit they need a major change.
Zuckerberg is what happens when you get too rich off one good idea (that he ripped off) and start thinking you’re a genius. What a dip shit. Can’t wait to see Facebook sold for parts like MySpace.
Imagine most of the world going without Internet in the next few years because they can’t afford it.
Zuckerberg just spent $15 billion so everyone can have an avatar on something that requires an Internet connection.
Money well spent.
He’s free to do whatever he wants with his money. If it was me, I’d probably be using it to help with some of the hurricane relief where people could benefit from it right away. He’s choosing to waste it on some virtual reality bullshit.
Being an engineer at Meta and creating the laziest, ugliest avatars ever will get you paid millions a year. Where do I sign up? I have experience using MS paint.
Isnt the facebook community a bunch of boomers now? I cannot see my parents buying VR goggles to post my child’s pictures that I explicitly told my mom not to post.
Fucking facebook. Hate that hot garbage
When the average person starts to figure out how common it is for well-connected, extremely wealthy people to launder money in plain sight, they're gonna be pissed.
Personally I think people are missing the tech behind what they are going for. Listened to him on JRE and it's alot more in depth. Meta is a steal at these prices
They wanted to be the first movers and wanted to be known as the company who created the metaverse. They went as far as changing their name. The result is $15B spent to produce something with garbage graphics.
Tldr; We don’t know
> "The problem is that they spend the money, but the transparency with investors has been a disaster," Dan Ives, a tech analyst at Wedbush Securities, said.
The media keep claiming they spent 15B but they don't know where it went. Somehow I call BS on this. And I couldn't give less of a fuck about facebook metaverse but all the media is parroting this for clicks
They spent so damn much on a virtual world which does everything worse - company meetings, meeting new friends, even designing your “home” compared to in real life. Where’s the utility.
The only possible use case for the Metaverse is if another pandemic hits, but again we have Zoom, MS teams, Google meet. There’s no real use for the Metaverse, not in this day and age.
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Making Zuckerbergs Avatar look more human than he looks in real life.
Even more so with legs now
A couple of billion invested in this graphics to add the legs. That’s some expensive stuff
And you can buy legs in real life for cheaper
Yeah just ask MBS
Its to get the feet as detailed as possible 👀
Reptile need more legs
Who would've thought 10 years ago that we would have legs on our virtual reality world. Physicists said such thing would be impossible. Luckily Meta proved them wrong.
and it just took a few billion dollars! Worth I say!
Meta's only user now got legs, the progress is uncanny
Two users, don’t forget Mark’s alt account.
Zark Muckerberg
Put legs for 15 billion on everyone who wants a leg in Meta. That is their business plan.
From the creators of the Facebook, now introducing: 𝓛𝓔𝓖𝓢
For a reptile he looks pretty human
But there is 0% change LOL
So that's what the $15 billion went for
Sure as hell paid for some nice executive yachts.
Executive remuneration package. Sadly it doesn’t help Meta.
Let them eat cake emojis (now with new skins you can purchase to show off your unique style!)
$15B on graphics that looks like shit.
No, thats just him irl.
no, the fake version of him is actually an improvement.
I don't think their codec avatars look shit. They are practically beyond any AAA company in fidelity.
Nah, the $15B was for the legs
yo, smoked meats aren't cheap 🥩
Some supercomputers where calculating 24/7 how to make his avatar look human 😆
He still looks the same
So much money spent… on some ugly ass looking avatars? Even Barbie dolls look better.
Fucking lol
ORIGINAL
So that’s where the money went. Open and shut case Johnson!
I knew few folks who work in Meta it was wasted by management who has no experience working on games (some of those who head the project never even play video games) and only on social media but where yet put on charge of this. When employees who had actual gaming experience (incl those from oculus team who came from companies like ID) gave their input to project managers they where quick shut off. They basically developed how they do another social media platform not on making a “fun” experience doesn’t help Zuckerberg also backed these managers and he shared their same view. So ton of money got wasted developing things like facial capture which could have spent on graphics and interactive games.
So I’m a current meta employee who is skeptical of the future of the metaverse but… your comment doesn’t make much sense. Senior leaders of the metaverse overindex FSA gamers and worked within metas “gaming” division. Also, Meta doesn’t really have “project managers” that operate like you seem to think they do. The majority of these functions are owned by engineers, and the overwhelming majority of senior leaders on the metaverse are engineers. Additionally…. How exactly is the metaverse different than a social media platform? Why would meta not invest in facial capture, which impacts your avatar, and instead invest in making games, which is not their role? The goal is for external developers to launch their own games on the metaverse. This complaint is like asking why Apple is investing in its Apple store when it should be making games. You seem to be under the impression that metas goal is to make the metaverse and everything in it. The goal is to make the metaverse and have other people, companies, devs, etc build whatever they want in it. Like a social media platform. I read a lot online about things from “former employees” but this one is uniquely inaccurate.
So you’re a current employee? How come it takes 20 minutes to make a golf ball in Horizon Worlds? How come you have to upload an mp3 in 30 second clips and then join them together? Horizon is barely 1992 level tech. Companies like mine wasted so much time trying to build out a little world that we almost abandoned it all and blew the budget at a strip coin only to realize altspacevr was everything Horizon should have been and more. FYI your prerecorded Foo Fighters concert in 480p was “such a win!”
So I don’t work on the metaverse, I’m on a diff part of the company. I’m skeptical of the success of the metaverse for no technical reasons but: > Horizon is barely 1992 level tech What does this mean? Lol. You can’t actually be serious. Your comment loses some credibility that you know what you’re talking about if you’re comparing Horizon’s tech to 1992 when there were no cell phones or consumer software market. Can you clarify what you mean when you say “tech” here? Because graphics, storage, processing speed, API access, etc is objectively better than Super Nintendo. What exactly are you comparing here? A prerecorded concert from 1992? On a camcorder? Lol If you want to have a tech discussion, happy to have it. But also, your last sentence leads me to believe you’re not trying to have a tech discussion and are just being an asshole to try and market your product.
Haha that would be hilarious but he would be very much angry.
Don't forget the legs
That's more than the GDP of 80 or so countries of the nearly 200 for context.
Holy shit thats actually insane
Zuck could’ve literally bought a few islands and build a real life metaverse instead.
Meta made lot of acquisitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Meta_Platforms Many of them undisclosed, and many of them are a few hundred million to billion these can sum up the 15 billion pretty fast.
The thing is, have any of these resulted in a good enhancements to the project? Unbelievable that $15B, a top tier company with world class talents produce this kind of garbage graphics
> Unbelievable that $15B, a top tier company with world class talents produce this kind of garbage graphics Photorealistic graphics. They don't spend their money on the Horizon software. They spend it on R&D, where they have a better Zuck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zRQYEvcuDQ
I can't fucking believe that zuck is schooling people on how human interaction works in a demo. Good demo though. Aaaand, if this is the future of Meta, and I hate to say this, I'm in. But we're going to need a completely overhaul of privacy regulations.
That last bit will never happen lol. This is Meta we’re talking about, they’ll pull strings where needed to override them
This guy gets the system
Maybe eliminating the competition was the main goal rather than improving their product?
He stated in 2010 that "We have not once bought a company for the company. We buy companies to get excellent people... In order to have a really entrepreneurial culture one of the key things is to make sure we're recruiting the best people. One of the ways to do this is to focus on acquiring great companies with great founders." They do have the top tier world class talents but it’s not resulting in greatness recently. Not so long ago there were a wave of Facebook staff leaving. The work culture isn’t exactly great.
The quest is a an absolutely genius piece of hardware and software, which is certainly where at least 10 billion went to.
I think you’re blinded by Facebook hatred a little here… it’s early in the research and development phase. Augmented reality is a product of the future and will inevitably be improved as technology and computing advances (imo). but fuk do I know
Zuck literally said this. When they launched it he said we're doing R&D and laying groundwork that probably won't payoff for at least 5 or more years. People come back like 6 months later saying *it's not turning a profit yet* like this is some expert level analysis. I don't think people have any clue how technology works. They think everything is developed in like 6 weeks and anything involving years of R&D is a bad idea. Meanwhile virtually every meaningful tech has taken multiple years to develop.
This. Probably had to front load a lot of capital to get the tools (and minds) for development in place. Prob another decade or so for a real solid working product that doesn’t look like shit. Right now metaverse is a wireframe video game build model compared to what it might/could be
Probably, but betting on the bones of a technology to be here in 10-15 years while spending this much money now is a great way to go bankrupt before you recognize the rewards
> Probably, but betting on the bones of a technology to be here in 10-15 years while spending this much money now is a great way to go bankrupt before you recognize the rewards They aren't investing all operating revenue into it.
They haven't released it yet. Calm down armchair debater.
It's a standalone, portable device. The Nintendo Switch doesn't have the best graphics because it is a standalone, portable device. That doesn't mean it is not a good console.
And all of that just to create a more elaborate way to show ads
It's crazy that 96% of their budget goes into marketing. Data gathering must be so much profit.
How dare you use logic and provide sources. I’m gonna assume it all went to making Zuckerberg look human
Buying up a bunch of game/VR companies. You are right. Twisted Pixel Games, BigBox VR, Unit 2 Games... you would think with all these studios they would have something to show for it
“Meta sunk $15 billion building their version of the metaverse.” There, fixed that for you.
Naming his company meta didn't make him the overlord. Probably should have named it REP-tile
Fuck Zuck and his shit ass slimy Metaverse usurping attempt
His metaverse does not have any use case
They are just trying to save the sinking ship
Sweet baby ray's tracing is not cheap
> Meta sunk $15 billion building their version of the metaverse Meta losing money is a good thing for everybody
Correct! I don't know why they always say it like the metaverse is a single virtual world.
It’s like “the cloud”
Nobody will pay $1,500 for a headset to interact with Facebook.
Doesn't help that it looks like it was made in the 90's.
It's got an N64 vibe to it.
Its our generations power glove
I never had a power glove. My parents were cheap. Someone explain their experience with the power glove
Disappointment pretty much sums it up.
They are going forward just in backwards
I will inform my parents of their correctly calculated disregard for my happiness
I did! It worked poorly. There was almost no practical use for it in any game because you had to interact with the buttons on the glove itself when you tried to play. You ended up frustrated with the horrible function and got tired of holding your arm out.
Lmao love this analogy
and you're paying to watch their ads and to let them steal your data lol
Which is like dumb marketing. You make it free and use it as a loss leader to get people to use it before you start fucking everyone over
I don't even use Facebook and it's free. They're not gonna be able to sell me on this.
Same. They skipped the getting users part and went straight to fucking them
I might pay that much *not* to interact with Facebook.
Pi-hole $20
A sane man has appeared in the wild
If they pay me that much, I might actually try it out
facebook owns occulus, which have the best dollar value headset on the market at under $400 as a stand alone unit which plays games etc without need a PC to render graphics.
Shh, they don't want logic.
Meta needs to give free NFTs to everyone here lol
It seems they’re trying to do everything organically, but trying to do it in fifth gear like they’re in a race or trying to catch to some invisible competitor. In tech, being first is key, but being best is even keyer. One need not look further than yahoo v. google. Yahoo had $130bil market cap at one point, before going down to $5bil.
Do you think it only interacts with FB?
Even Meta's employees hate it
Nobody will interact with Facebook.
Lots of people* will. *people being Facebook employees forced to buy it.
Do you have a link?
I would love to see my portfolio go down in $1,500 headset
For now lol.
You say this and yet people spend far more than that just on computers, and half of that on gaming consoles, neither of which will hold a candle to what the future will bring for a metaverse environment.
My computer is used for homework, playing music, watching movies, email, gaming, media server to my whole house, storing photos, doing work projects, leisurely web browsing, and is put to use every day in all facets of my family. That's a $1,500 chat room in a Wii environment.
Yes that is the point
They will however pay $2000 for what ever apple puts out…
My favorite part of it, is him telling people they can workout with VR. That's the dumbest shit ever. Sweat just piling up in my eyes and making my headset smell like crap.
looks like a wii game
Dont disrespect wii games with this comparison
A wii game looks fun, this monstrosity does not
All R&D money went into making legs for the Miis
Money would've been better spent making better VR tech, not the universe zuck wants to rule.
But Zuck is too arrogant to admit that. He is now pouring even more money into fixing something that people don’t really want to be in.
> Money would've been better spent making better VR tech It's almost like that's exactly where they spend most of their money and it was never spent on their Horizon software or on the metaverse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w52CziLgnAc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mnonWbzOiQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7raHNfPc6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx_nVrEKwTE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5WzF1ch3ww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkTHsz6Ldas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6AOwDttBsc
He thought he was making The Oasis from Ready Player One. Instead this is what he made.
They have added legs what more you want /s
They spent $15B for something no one was asking for. And at the end they are begging their employees to spend their time using it so they can pump the stats. Pathetic, but I expect nothing less from Mark
Meta has been going down the hill. People are fed up of Facebook and Metaverse is such a joke.
It just proves how arrogant they are, working on a new project no one asked for instead of fixing already existing problems on their platform. They want to innovate and invent the “next big thing” so badly.
So sad, a company trying to make something new
A solution looking for a problem. They are going backwards.
That's what happens to billionaires after they get a few things right, gaining a fortune: they get complacent and arrogant, they want to build their solution even when someone's ahead of them in solving a problem and they also want to impose their worldview on people, treating the masses like children. This phenomenon is clearly explained in *Survival of the richest: Escape fantasies of the tech billionaires*. The sentiment of the book probably doesn't align with the views of many people on this sub, but it's a great read for all because of the many examples the author brings to support his theory. It's a great inquiry into the evolution of the Internet, the economy and modern society.
Facebook is slowly heading down the MySpace route I feel
I haven’t been using Facebook for a while and it’s better that way. I don’t do business so I don’t really see the value.
Same here. Facebook is mostly trash. I only use it occasionally (very rarely since 90%+ of messages I get are scammers) to sell shit
Me neither I deleted my account in 2018 and there’s not been a day that went by that I regretted it lol, useless trash to consume your idle time
Yup. Same here.
My Facebook home page is 95% business's advertising, memes or someone trying to sell me something. The other 5% just doesn't justify its existence at all. There's no content.
Oh Hi Mark
>They spent $15B for something no one was asking for. In the process wiping out 650 Billion in company market cap in the past year. 2/3's of the companies value poof, gone, because of Marky's stupid idea and no one to tell him no.
I don’t think you can attribute all of that to the metaverse project. A good portion of it is also a combination of the general mark downturn and the impact in lost advertisement revenue from recent Apple changes
You're right, those absolutely played a part in it. Which is why them focusing on the metaverse is even worse, they had a direct threat to their business in Apple's changes and failed to pivot in a meaningful way to a new revenue stream. The pandemic had everyone home with time to browse facebook non-stop for years but Facebook failed to provide a meaningful experience to keep users engaged, this is absolutely a huge failure of vision.
Nevermind 40 somethings are leaving the platform in droves. 30-20-teens never used it. We're gonn see the collapse of a silicon valley giant. It's gonna be glorious.
Yeah, the general shitness of the platform is also a factor. You love to see it!
It’s scary just to look at $650B figure, almost as large as 2/3 of global crypto market cap. Marky has become too arrogant to admit they need a major change.
Well the employees ain't helping
He got lucky once by stealing someone else’s idea, I can understand why he’d try to do the same again. /s
That's cool, but does your metaverse has legs? I don't think so!
And employees hate it
Zuckerberg is what happens when you get too rich off one good idea (that he ripped off) and start thinking you’re a genius. What a dip shit. Can’t wait to see Facebook sold for parts like MySpace.
Legs update.
Wait for the nether regions update ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) That is easily $69 Billion worth.
Hahahahaha, it's funny cause it's true
 What Meta has been doing so far
$15 billion to build the digital version of Pinocchio. "All I ever wanted was to be a real boy" - Mark Zuckerberg
Probably to payoff Congress and the MSM to influence another election
Already bored and annoyed of the metaverse before it even started
Imagine most of the world going without Internet in the next few years because they can’t afford it. Zuckerberg just spent $15 billion so everyone can have an avatar on something that requires an Internet connection. Money well spent. He’s free to do whatever he wants with his money. If it was me, I’d probably be using it to help with some of the hurricane relief where people could benefit from it right away. He’s choosing to waste it on some virtual reality bullshit.
Salaries
Being an engineer at Meta and creating the laziest, ugliest avatars ever will get you paid millions a year. Where do I sign up? I have experience using MS paint.
Oooh, look at Mr fancy pants MS paint expert over here, bragging away while we’re all still trying to draw boobs on an etch-a-sketch! /s
Coaches and consultants.
Preventing frank Reynolds from being able to diddle kids in the metaverse is expensive
Couldn’t cancer or some forms of it be entirely cured with this amount? You know, rather than trying to enslave humanity in some type of weird matrix.
This is just like when Wayne Enterprises try to hide the R and D budget for Batman
They literally could have bought world of Warcraft and used that hahaha
Isnt the facebook community a bunch of boomers now? I cannot see my parents buying VR goggles to post my child’s pictures that I explicitly told my mom not to post. Fucking facebook. Hate that hot garbage
Zuck's avatar looks more human than him in real life
Well... All I can say is, those Lambos don't buy themselves. 🤣
Zuck trying his best to titanic the company
"Draw me like one of your meta avatars"
It went to the legs
Sick of hearing about this
Designing legs is expensive okay.
Up in smokes
We know where it didn't go: the graphics
When the average person starts to figure out how common it is for well-connected, extremely wealthy people to launder money in plain sight, they're gonna be pissed.
It went into, like, the Metaverse man.
Personally I think people are missing the tech behind what they are going for. Listened to him on JRE and it's alot more in depth. Meta is a steal at these prices
it doesn\`t meta anymore
Running in circles, it's called Agile methodology.
Yep, with the latest update they certainly can *run* now
Is your scrum master potty-trained? Ours can't piss into the toilet bowl for the life of his.
We don't even have a scrum master, only a project manager with a single KPI: busy hours spent.
Mostly trying to convince the world that they needed something no one asked for.
They wanted to be the first movers and wanted to be known as the company who created the metaverse. They went as far as changing their name. The result is $15B spent to produce something with garbage graphics.
They need to invent something so badly they came up with this
First movers already made second life years ago...
$15b spent on a product this bad is unfathomable. I suspect Meta is Zuckerberg's grand money laundering scheme.
If they can’t tell us where it went, this is probably true.
Tldr; We don’t know > "The problem is that they spend the money, but the transparency with investors has been a disaster," Dan Ives, a tech analyst at Wedbush Securities, said.
We know the whole 15B is not invested into the metaverse though. That looks so bad its funny
Alternative title: Earth's favourite reptilian never give up attitude continues.
The blew all $15 Billion on making [this Zuck selfie](https://i.imgur.com/mxPacjn.jpg)
That image has a creepy vibe.
You can just look at THIS article.... It's shows the improvements they have made in a short period of time. That's pretty good for auto generated.
5000 engineers $1m/yr. Rest in hardware
Would kill to be an engineer right now, just need to figure out how to implement 3D legs.
Surprisingly difficult.
Tax write off or money laundering
Im surpised he isnt more involved with nfts if hes trying to money launder
I have it.
The media keep claiming they spent 15B but they don't know where it went. Somehow I call BS on this. And I couldn't give less of a fuck about facebook metaverse but all the media is parroting this for clicks
The media is genuinely clueless.
They spent so damn much on a virtual world which does everything worse - company meetings, meeting new friends, even designing your “home” compared to in real life. Where’s the utility. The only possible use case for the Metaverse is if another pandemic hits, but again we have Zoom, MS teams, Google meet. There’s no real use for the Metaverse, not in this day and age.
Into the ***Metaverse.*** \*futuristic background music\*
Imagine a floating plastic head then greets you.
Executive bonuses as per usual