It appears Meta may be ready to put the metaverse out of its misery

(cnn.com)

12 points by methuselah_in 12 hours ago|9 comments

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jsheard 12 hours ago

It's a good thing they didn't do anything really embarrassing like rename the whole company after it.

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rl3 12 hours ago

I suspect the greater intent was a sort of morality car wash for their branding.

The new name is general enough they're not tied to any specific business model despite the etymology of the rename.

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f30e3dfed1c9 8 hours ago

> they're not tied to any specific business model

That would be really useful if they had more than one business model but they don't and probably aren't going to.

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biglyburrito 12 hours ago

It's really too bad... I was hoping they'd continue flushing all that money down the drain.

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jsheard 12 hours ago

For real though, Meta flushing all that money down the drain is keeping VR as a whole hanging on by a thread. I'm not sure whether it survives if they pull back to focus on Google Glass 2 or whatever.

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biglyburrito 11 hours ago

VR as envisioned by an ill-intented corporation like Meta isn't something that deserves to succeed. The sooner the Metaverse dies, the better.

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richardatlarge 6 hours ago

"meta" can actually mean many different things

so can, "colossal" and "stupendous"

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methuselah_in 8 hours ago

Well, even htc had let go this dream i guess long ago. Now new device from steam maybe help to do this with games

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ChrisArchitect 8 hours ago

Previously on Bloomberg source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148080