AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦Sep 28, 2023

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]

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

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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