"The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people."
https://www.404media.co/rip-metaverse-an-80-billion-dumpster-fire-nobody-wanted/
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@404mediaco shall we assemble the analysts who predicted it would be:
THE new way of working!
Revolutionize entertainment as we know it…
A $772.45 Billion market opportunity…
A life changing immersive experience…
And point and laugh?
@404mediaco it feels like it was always an attempt to wash the facebook brand of cambridge analytica, with a secondary potential upside. The first goal appears to have been met.
@404mediaco @potatosandwichjen I thought that turd died years ago.
@404mediaco everybody who knows who mark zuckerberg is, and who is themself capable of thinking, knows that guy does not have a functioning brain. the $80billion failure is nothing compared to the next, bigger, fake AI one.
billionaires are not smart or competent
@404mediaco
There already was a Metaverse. It still exists. Second Life. I don't think that Zuckerf*ck's version was any better although I never looked at it. No interest.