It appears Meta’s Horizon Worlds may literally and figuratively not have legs after all.

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    12 hours ago

    Metaverse was like the AI nobody asked for getting pushed into apps. Nobody wanted Wii Mii like hangout rooms where you have to water a clunky headset.

    I was willing to give a shot to something like the Metaverse, but the instant I heard it was a Facebook/Meta project I had zero interest and hoped it would die. This was my same experience with Occulus. These are both technologies I want for a cyberpunk future, but Facebook cannot be the one to control them.

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      11 hours ago

      One of the original employees of Oculus stuck around after the buy out, until a couple years ago and rage quit. Because he said that Meta is killing it. So yeah.

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        8 hours ago

        They are killing it, but sadly they’re about the only ones keeping it alive, at least at an affordable price.

        I wish VR was a commodity product, like TVs. Everything compatible with everything.