Zuckerberg Comes for the Metaverse

[Lucia Nightfire]

17 hours ago, Mr Amore said:

Over the past months the big publishers have been preparing their consumers for the NFT era. And so it begins (BBC article).

 

In a world where people pay thousands for another man's used trainers (and display them in some living room shrine), NFTs are set to become hugely profitable. It's strategic that Ubisoft's 'digits' keep record of every previous owner, it gives value to worthless items for having been associated with celebrity streamers in the past.

These are closed systems and not as we envision NFTs for the 'metaverse', where an inventory could cross boundaries from metaverse to metaverse. But all eyes in the industry will be upon Ubisoft's digits now.

Ubisoft is already crap, so NFTs are right up their alley.

[Coffee Pancake]

Hopefully this kind of obvious cash grab bursts the entire NFT bubble.

[Mr Amore]

Is it a game, is it a movie, is it a teaser for some future UE5 metaverse.

 

Some technology highlights begin from 8 minutes in.

Calling it an 'Unreal Engine 5 Experience' sounds like a shot across the bows. Even if Epic release some form of metaverse with interconnected Experiences, it will serve a different demographic to Roblox.

 

 

[Arielle Popstar]

1 hour ago, Mr Amore said:

Even if Epic release some form of metaverse with interconnected Experiences, it will serve a different demographic to Roblox.

 

And the real point of a metaverse is the interconnecting of demographics. The ability for an S/L resident to teleport to a Roblox experience and then over to an Epic one, all the while maintaining the look they left S/L with.

[Profaitchikenz Haiku]

4 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:

And the real point of a metaverse is the interconnecting of demographics. The ability for an S/L resident to teleport to a Roblox experience and then over to an Epic one, all the while maintaining the look they left S/L with.

But that in turn means SL residents would have to accept an influx of Roblox/Anime/Minecraft appearances, and from the tenor of the posts I've seen here that would not go down well.

[Luna Bliss]

Can finally get in to this thing. Will be checking it out later:

 

Edited December 10, 2021 by Luna Bliss

[Kimmi Zehetbauer]

37 minutes ago, Luna Bliss said:

Can finally get in to this thing. Will be checking it out later:

 

Did Zuck finally figured how to add legs to the toons?

[Coffee Pancake]

42 minutes ago, Kimmi Zehetbauer said:

Did Zuck finally figured how to add legs to the toons?

Don't focus on the lack of legs.

Focus on the numbers of people who are rushing to build meta's brave new world with ZERO ownership of everything made in meta.

The lack of legs is a PR distraction.

[Profaitchikenz Haiku]

1 hour ago, Coffee Pancake said:

The lack of legs is a PR distraction.

Did they learn nothing from ZZ Top?

[Lucia Nightfire]

8 hours ago, Mr Amore said:

Is it a game, is it a movie, is it a teaser for some future UE5 metaverse.

 

Some technology highlights begin from 8 minutes in.

Calling it an 'Unreal Engine 5 Experience' sounds like a shot across the bows. Even if Epic release some form of metaverse with interconnected Experiences, it will serve a different demographic to Roblox.

 

 

All I want to know is, Do they reenact the Niobe & Persephone kiss scene? 😉

[Maryanne Solo]

My contribution to the Big Zs next squillion dollaz....
Horizon Worlds I Meta Quest 2 -> "Be Nothing You Want to Be!"
That video is totally yawnsville.
Are people really that stupid to swallow that rubbish? 🤔🙄
Oh....i c..... 😑

Edited December 10, 2021 by Maryanne Solo
EmBOLDened

[Kimmi Zehetbauer]

24 minutes ago, Maryanne Solo said:

My contribution to the Big Zs next squillion dollaz....
Horizon Worlds I Meta Quest 2 -> "Be Nothing You Want to Be!"
That video is totally yawnsville.
Are people really that stupid to swallow that rubbish? 🤔🙄
Oh....i c..... 😑

Sadly many live on Freakbook.  If anyone every watched The Social Dilemma on NetFlix, they talk about how FB minipulates people and ways to keep them hooked, line and sinker.

Think I'm one of 23 that never did FreakBook and never will.

[animats]

11 hours ago, Mr Amore said:

Is it a game, is it a movie, is it a teaser for some future UE5 metaverse.

Some technology highlights begin from 8 minutes in.

Wow. LL needs to step up their game. A lot.

[Tama Suki]

12 hours ago, Mr Amore said:

Is it a game, is it a movie, is it a teaser for some future UE5 metaverse.

 

Some technology highlights begin from 8 minutes in.

Calling it an 'Unreal Engine 5 Experience' sounds like a shot across the bows. Even if Epic release some form of metaverse with interconnected Experiences, it will serve a different demographic to Roblox.

 

 

And you'll get stuck in lag 5 fps 😂. 

Edited December 11, 2021 by Tama Suki

[Kitt Whipple]

17 hours ago, Maryanne Solo said:

My contribution to the Big Zs next squillion dollaz....
Horizon Worlds I Meta Quest 2 -> "Be Nothing You Want to Be!"
That video is totally yawnsville.
Are people really that stupid to swallow that rubbish? 🤔🙄
Oh....i c..... 😑

I have to agree - but you have to hand it to Meta:  Inane and utterly creepy at the same time is sometimes hard to pull off, but that video nailed it.

[sirhc DeSantis]

18 hours ago, Maryanne Solo said:

My contribution to the Big Zs next squillion dollaz....
Horizon Worlds I Meta Quest 2 -> "Be Nothing You Want to Be!"
That video is totally yawnsville.
Are people really that stupid to swallow that rubbish? 🤔🙄
Oh....i c..... 😑

Still enough zombies stoopid enough to be on zuckbook so I think (as they obviously do not) it is a losing battle.

[animats]

But Facebook has one thing right. It's not sluggish.

[Lucia Nightfire]

25 minutes ago, animats said:

But Facebook has one thing right. It's not sluggish.

Brain slugs agree. Not sluggish.

[Kitt Whipple]

Here is a fresh article on this stuff: 

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/16/1042516/the-metaverse-has-a-groping-problem/

Have to admit, this one made me chuckle - I am hard pressed to see how someone's gonna be traumatized by a virtual grope in Zuck's betaverse.

 

[Randall Ahren]

37 minutes ago, Kitten5ylph said:

Here is a fresh article on this stuff: 

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/16/1042516/the-metaverse-has-a-groping-problem/

Have to admit, this one made me chuckle - I am hard pressed to see how someone's gonna be traumatized by a virtual grope in Zuck's betaverse.

 

You have to have an Oculus to get into Horizon Worlds? I might want to try that. They're looking for creators.

[Coffee Pancake]

1 hour ago, Randall Ahren said:

You have to have an Oculus to get into Horizon Worlds? I might want to try that. They're looking for creators.

Might want to look at who owns what you create ....

[Randall Ahren]

22 minutes ago, Coffee Pancake said:

Might want to look at who owns what you create ....

Does it matter? This world is dying. Facebook is so committed to birthing the next word, it changed its name. That would be like a Linden tattooing SL Forever across her chest.

Don't you want to feel that excitement again when SL was young and it felt like we we're building a new country and there was a real sense of community?

 

 

Edited December 17, 2021 by Randall Ahren
Changed it's to its.

[Solar Legion]

Facebook changing its name is a PR stunt and attempt to get users to think of them when they think Metaverse. No more, no less. They do not care one whit about you. At all.

Congratulations, you - like others - have already fallen for the hype.

[Randall Ahren]

4 minutes ago, Solar Legion said:

They do not care one whit about you. At all.

Imagine being alive 500,000 years from now, and the luminosity of the sun has increased 2.5% because it's starting to burn more helium. The oceans are evaporating and the equator is an uninhabitable wasteland. A colony ship is leaving for another star system. Do you get on the ship or complain that the people at the new star system will not care one whit about you?

That's where we're at in virtual world time.

[Coffee Pancake]

1 hour ago, Randall Ahren said:

Does it matter?

Donating yourself to a billion dollar corporation to recapture a little lost nostalgia is about the most depressing endorsement of anything I've ever heard.

1 hour ago, Randall Ahren said:

Imagine being alive 500,000 years from now, and the luminosity of the sun has increased 2.5% because it's starting to burn more helium. The oceans are evaporating and the equator is an uninhabitable wasteland. A colony ship is leaving for another star system. Do you get on the ship or complain that the people at the new star system will not care one whit about you?

That's where we're at in virtual world time.

It's really not.

To continue your analogy, imagine upon reaching the new colony, with no way home .. you discover the brave new world is a perfect paradise in every way but one, making it irrevocably incompatible with life transplanted from earth. Supplies dwindling the colony turns inwards and consumes itself, literally. Will you eat your new friends before they eat you?

Meta is no more the future of virtual worlds than Elon is king of Mars.