Mastodawn

Well, so much for that. https://www.comicsands.com/zuckerberg-metaverse-shutting-down?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

Zuckerberg Roasted Over Meta Shutting Down 'Metaverse'

Well, so much for that.

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DB Schwein 1d ago

@georgetakei

Ironically Second Life is still online 23 years later.

It wasn't the idea of avatars that made that fail, though many will say it was. It was the "real life prices for your avatar's shit" that was the problem. H*ll if you'd been able to login with any VR set rather than requiring FB's latest offering I bet more would have at least given it a try. You can pick those things up for ~$20, they're just not very good VR sets.

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Tor Iver Wilhelmsen

@deirdrebeth @georgetakei Which is why many of the ardent defenders of the hype called other stuff like World of Warcraft parts of "the Metaverse" as well, though you don’t use the VR headsets for any of these other examples, being 3rd person and all…