>>110281079I never understood where all the billions went. The oculus glasses existed before the hype, so it didnt to there. VR is pretty much dead because there is only a small handful of good games and apps, non of which are made by meta, so it didnt go there either.All they had to show was a really really shitty vr chatting app thingyk, that looks like it was made by 5 interns, so the money hopefully also didnt go there.
>>110281100Retarded decisions can burn all the money in the world and Zuck is the king of retards who never had a single good idea
>>110281100>I never understood where all the billions wentInto the pockets of the tens of thousands of software engineers whose jobs it was to build metaverse, aka, that thing that no one ended up using.
>>110281171how did they use tens of thousands of engineers to recreate Nintendo Mii avatars? what did they all work on?
>>110281079The problem is billions means nothing to these companies, they're operating on the order of trillions now.
>>110282333those are men
>>110281637This is what baffles me. Zuck pitched something like VR Chat to a board room and they all slobbered all over him for it. How did nobody stop him and say, "yo this is a terrible idea"
>>110282690The Jews' wet dream for goyim
>>110282667vr was the next thing, everybody was gonna have their own goggles, facebook would reap double the income and ten times the telemetry from their established customerbase, it couldn't possibly fail
>>110282694I still feel like there was no way anyone believed that. VR was booming but for an investment like the metaverse to pay off, likely everyone who uses Facebook would need a headset. They gotta know what's not feesibleOh yeah, and the idea of owning "real estate" in this game -- with pricing that fluctuates -- is the cherry on top. What were they thinking?
>>110281079It feels like VR would be farther along if it had come out later and managed to dodge Ready Player One, Metaverse garbage and Windows 10. Years of no progress that wasn't external and no coherent standards.>>110281100Carmack said that they were operating with miserable efficiency and he was constantly trying to terminate pet projects that went nowhere and wrangle people back on track.>>110282667>>110282723Consultants predate AI when it comes to hallucinating bullshit and sucking off the opinions of CEOs, investors and board members.The true form of a consultant is a small language model.
>>110281100because you don't know anything.
>>110282690WOWTHIS LOOKS SO ENTICING
>>110281100>>110281171A lot of it was spent on financing third party devs to make games for the platform. Another chunk went into R&D of the overengineered hardware and into subsidizing it.
>>110282723>Oh yeah, and the idea of owning "real estate" in this game -- with pricing that fluctuates -- is the cherry on top.>What were they thinking?Perhaps it went something like NFT "game" development>people with no interest in video games attempt to make one as a blatant cash grab>they put all their effort into figuring out how to monetize it>get so caught up in figuring out the most effective way to fleece users (the only bit they care about) that they forget people won't interact with their storefront unless it's attached to a game they want to play>boast about how "revolutionary" their project is despite having no idea what the game is supposed to be, or how monetization will enable it to do anything it couldn't otherwise>project either collapses as terminal vaporware, or sharts out a minimum viable product asset flip exclusively played by coping bagholders
>>110282333The animation quality is amazing, too bad its wasted on pedophilic men with autogynophilia.
>>110286412I'm pretty sure it's just vrchat players with face tracking being recorded
>>110281079Zuck was sitting on a mountain of cash with guaranteed cash flow over the next 10+ years. He could afford to waste money on something that could potentially undercut Meta if a competitor seized VR first. It was a calculated gamble and it’s easy to say it was dumb in retrospect but at the end of the day he still has the most wealth for his age and you’re just a broke loser, so
Did they shelve it
>>110281100It was an accounting fraud. The money wasn't spend but went directly into the pocket of zuck and other top executives.
>>110286453Next time take the (circumcised) prick outta your mouth before trying to say something
>>110286453Why are billionaires sad then?
>>110289308Because all the money in the world won't fill the gaping void in their soul
>>110289318Thinking about it, why does that even happen?These essentially comically evil sociopath characters think, feel and act like they don't need humanity, so why do they even experience is as missing?Shouldn't they be in complete harmony with their nature and needs?
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>>110289393many reasons, apart from being useful idiots for literal satan, check for example the book of ecclesiastes
>>110286412You mean trannies
>>110290248If you use a male avatar in vrchat it just means you like men
>>110291357No, it just means you don't hate yourself tranny
>>110281079it never happened if I never experienced it
>>110292504if your avatar isn't a full body body scan, then you are literally gay for the male character you play as
>>110282333They really need to put a PID filter on all of the eye rig movements to smooth them out. It looks like they drank too much coffee with all of those small jitters in their faces.
>>110281079>>110281079it was a cover for the bribes to get digital id passed
>>110282690>Sitting at home, playing that, alone>On his birthday
>>110281079>multi billionUnderselling it. More like centi-billion.
>>110281100>VR is pretty much dead because there is only a small handful of good games and appsIf only there was some kind of technology that could pump out tons of production-quality apps for nearly no cost.
>>110294124"good" is the key word here
>>110292735But I use (you) for my male avatar...
>>110286412>wasted
>>110281100Zuckerberg is a puppet who one day, decided that even as a puppet, he still wanted to put money into VR. You know how Steam puts a ton of money into undersea exploration? Same deal, only because VR is an optical trick that wears off its novelty in a few hours, was never going to be successful. Zuckerberg knew this but when you're rich and you have a toy to play with, why not?
>>110294619Within those "tons," you get additional "good"
it's not over. they will try to bring it back once cost of living skyrockets with the Iran war, just like what happened with COVIDthey will then lock you back into the metaverse, with digital ID, to do anything.
