Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse

https://lemmy.world/post/44452098

Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Motherfuckers even named their company after their useless hype product and then 5 years later just quietly kill it. Peak billionaire behaviour
We taking bets on the next rebrand name?
Well, by induction since the last hype was the “metaverse” and they rebranded to Meta, so because now the hype is “AI” they’ll rebrand to A
Since there is still nothing actually worth calling “metaverse” as the sci-fi concept it was promised to be, they might go for something around AGI.
I really could see Zuck going for some AGI bullshit
Oh great, because billionaires shitting on Tolkien wasn’t enough.

AI

I can call you Meta, and Meta you can call me AI. Call me AI.

Dead Internet Company
It’s not dead. I have elderly relatives who still use it.
I’m going to guess they’ll keep it and justify it as “metadata”. Like the metadata of it’s users that it sells
It was “Meta”, but now they’re going all-in on AI, so they’ll probably want to go “MetAI” except that it’s lame and so are all the other various portmanteaus, so they’ll pivot to something inexplicable and wild like “Everything” or “AllAI”
Meatverse?
Slathered in sweet baby rays bbq sauce.
It’s like tattooing your new girlfriend’s name on your ass.
More like tattooing that name on your face.
More like tattooing her ass on your face, and everyone in the bar nodding and saying “Been there, won’t be going back.”
“Hi im <girlfriends name>'s boyfriend. No no that is my legal name.” Behavoir