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Facebook shutting down its Horizon Worlds VR Metaverse

Facebook shutting down its Horizon Worlds VR Metaverse - awful.systems

the Metaverse just didn’t have legs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Hm95rQYpM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Hm95rQYpM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA] - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260318-facebook-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr [https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260318-facebook-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr] - podcast time: 6 min 29 sec

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NateNate60 3d ago

In a rational world, that fiasco would have resulted in shareholders angrily blowing the e-mail inboxes and telephones of every member of the board of directors and Zuckerberg would have resigned in shame years ago.

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veni_vedi_veni 2d ago

Yea, don’t really have much sympathy for Meta investors, they continue to give money to a company where the founder has a 51% voting share.

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NateNate60

Well, it’s not really a rational world. I mean, Tesla stockholders somehow still want Elon in charge despite sales, brand value, public perception, and product quality declining under his watch.