Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎Mar 18
halcy​ 
so are they going to change their name again or https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-on-meta-quest/
Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest

Meta’s flailing virtual reality social experience is being discontinued in June. It's part of Meta’s broader moves to slim down the business that became its namesake.

WIRED
Mar 18 at 7:28amWeb
Show threadhalcy​ Mar 18
listen. it is absolutely imperative that we make fun of them at every turn for this.
Show threadBlake C. StaceyMar 18
@halcy challenge accepted
Show threadflacsMar 18
@halcy unlikely, company names only ever become more generic
Show threadflacsMar 18
@halcy this is the stupid timeline, so I guess they will do a merger with Google and call the resulting company Facial
Show threadThomas SturmMar 18

@halcy But wait, VR was supposed to change the world.

We'd live there, they said. It would be perfect, they said.

Show threadDag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎Mar 18
@halcy Imagine working on that project for the last two years.
Show threadBarktic Fox Mar 18
@halcy I've never even stopped calling them Facebook, so they could just go back to that.
Show threadhalcy​ Mar 18
@alahmnat same, but, and this is important, I will absolutely start calling them meta now