now that the dust has settled, what went wrong?
>>107477032That's not how you sell dystopia after decades of Unreal Engine brainrot.
>>107477032imagine trying to dilute the multivariate experiences possible into some asinine flat looking piece of shit garbage.
>>107477032It looks like shit, has nothing to do, and has no advantages over Second Life or VRChat which are already mature, full of cunny, offers "digital real property" already for people to speculate on or use for advertising or whatever, and ostensibly both work for non-sexual conference calling.
it literally looks like a 12 year old's first attempt at making a custom level for an n64 game
>>107477032Failure to incentivize mass adoption. Most people don't want to use fucking VR, no matter how hard dululu hatman in chief over at Metakikes wants it. VR was dead on arrival 10 years ago and the situation has not really changed much in recent years. VR is only for porn and other perverted shit, it's not going to replace the internet like this retard thought it would.
>>107477032market research. this is something no one asked for, executed worse than the hobbyists have already done.
>>107477032VR is only really fun if you have fun concepts or good graphics. He had neither.Now excuse me while I pipe in Mantella into an overly modded skyrim vr and have conversations with the NPCs as I sail my boat in the ice ridden sea.
>>107477771Is Mantella a local model that runs on your GPU or is it a paid service?
>>107477738VR was stymied by Facebook getting tied up with grifters trying to be the new appstore, getting tied up with crypto and getting tied up with Windows trying to sunset Windows 7 (which is why they also never released a Linux version for the initial headsets, despite crowdfunding promises to do so).The fact that the Metaverse was effectively anti-marketing was just the cherry on top.Carmack himself stated that the company was working at miserable efficiency due to office politics and people trying to force their dumb ideas.VR ultimately isn't an internet replacement like web3 retards thought and it's not an exclusive gaming platform, it's just a new standard of display tech that is already superior to 2000-2010 era monitors and TVs. The only difference is that instead of being backed by a massive lobby and corporate interests like HDMI and LCDs were, VR is only being pushed by 2 companies and some niche enthusiast catering.
>>107477926>Carmack himself stated that the company was working at miserable efficiency due to office politics and people trying to force their dumb ideas.Sounds like my fucking workplace. I hate this shit so much. NOTHING EVER GETS DONE.
>>107477926>Facebook getting tied up with grifterssilly anon, facebook *are* the grifters. they are quite literally the root of all evil. don't ever, ever, ever, ever, ever assume they are operating in good faith.
>>107478614Yes, they're grifters, which is why they got tied up in trying to push these grifts.
>>107477032people were expecting something more than a shitty version of VRChat
no porn no pointdoes anyone think the internet would have ever took off with no porn
>>107477032Zuck thinks he's some genius or some shit just because he made a shitty social media platform once that become popular by chance.Now he imagines himself as some sort of "le great visionist" of future but all his visions aren't even original and saying "we gonna make shit like in that movie/book!" won't cut it. His visions are as shallow as this shitty VR world of his. Utterly devoid of any creativity.He clearly forgot the most important step of making a product: What do you offer to bring in your customers? Speaking of product as it's already an established thing is wrong way of thought.
>>107477032tis boring, at least VRchat has a wildwestness to it
>>107477032Facebook was a lightning strike idea that anyone could access with a PC. Dinkleberg convinced college kids to give up their personal information to see pictures of each other at drinking parties.VR was always a way more difficult sell but he pressed onward anyway. It failed because> expensive> huge barrier to entry> nothing to doHell I played VRC for seven years before I bought a headset.
AI bubble pasture is greener
>>107477032It looked like shit and it required hw that was not cheap.
>>107477032You can fuck in Second Life.So idk why it ever thought it could compete.
>>107477032VRChat is also converting into this corporate sterile slop, can be seen clearly from the japanese virtual market progression. 3d models with big boobs are replaced with 2D flat image planes, not a single gamedev or even gacha involved (were plenty of them in 2021)
>>107480252Yeah you need a monster computer for VR not to look like shit. So hundreds of dollars for VR gear and then over a thousand for the computer. Meta tried to squeeze the computer into the headset, but the tech's just not there.
>>107480329yup... + meta is doesn't even deal with HW properly it just retarded social media company with not enough engineers.
>>107480329>over a thousand for the computer.you mean just for a RAM stick
>>107480353valve is just a retarded fat senile landlord where top gamedevs do to die without releasing a game
>>107480380GAYYYYYBEEN LOOK AT THE GAYBENWOULDN'T YOU WANT TO PUBLISH UNDER THE GAYBENWE ALL TRUST THE GAYBENHE ONLY ASKS 30% BECAUSE THE GAYBENEPIC TROON SCREAMS GAYBEN BECAUSE HE IS EVEN BIGGER TROON THEN GAYBEN....
>>107477032I never could figure out what the Metaverse was outside of the abstract idea of it. Like what programs are even part of the Metaverse? How do I enter the Metaverse?Also, Zuck's ideas aren't compatible with current technology.Working remotely with a headset on isn't that awful of an idea, but you can't expect people to be thrilled about wearing clunky headsets underpowered for pixel densities needed to not strain your eyes, all for the privilege of sitting in meetings in abstract versions of conference rooms with uncanny representations of your coworkers.
>>107480406>conference rooms with uncanny representations of your coworkersget better avatars then
>>107477032Zuck is fucking retarded is what's the problem, he didn't lay down an effective plan and roadmap on how to build his metaverse. What's so stupid about all of this is that it's obvious what Zuck wanted, he wanted Fortnite (UEFN) + VRChat without the NSFW part of it, it's just that he could not for the life of him explain something so simple to his development teams. They aren't Epic so it still wouldn't have turned out great, but at least it wouldn't have been such an absolute embarrassment as it turned out to be.
>>107477032wii graphics, VR price tag
>>107477738Does it hurt you to know that white jews are the actual superior race of mankind? Like, they created the craziest shit you have ever seen throughout all of the 19th and 20th century. No one else has come even remotely close.
