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Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398

https://lemmy.world/post/5912506

Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398 - Lemmy.world

I remember when Meta first introduced its Metaverse, everyone ridiculed their rendering and rightfully so because it was just crap: [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/60e76a77-bb8c-41d8-bcb8-2f162933180e.png] Fast forward a year later, we now have an interview of Zuck by Lex Fridman inside the Metaverse and holy cow it looks realistic as fuck: [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bc911a17-3b46-4bda-ad1c-ea55c7ea76f7.png]

Sep 28, 2023 at 7:33pmWeb
Show threadAussiemandeusSep 28, 2023
Didn’t we agree as a species the metaverse wasn’t going to happen
Show threadAlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦Sep 28, 2023

Looks like Zuck is still doubling down on it despite almost everyone else still not seeing how it can be profitable and their Horizon Worlds seems to be a flop: www.bbc.com/news/technology-66913551

Still, assuming the interview above isn’t fake and that the rendering was really done in the Metaverse, they’ve come quite a long way from their initial SimCity-like graphics.

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Show threadBilly_GnosisSep 29, 2023
This is just a video chat. I don’t get it. How much money has he sunk into this shit show again?