Maybe you shouldn't have made it so shit
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
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Listen pal - Do you know how hard it is to make legs for a wii-like avatar?! We need another 8 billion.
They're called miis 😤
Hello, I am a friendly ghost coming to attend your serious business meeting in the Metaverse. Did you know that this is going to be a massive industry? Buy your Metaverse real estate now, it's definitely not a fake digital asset that Facebook can create and delete at will.
Cutting spending by 20% while not reducing output will definitely accomplish that, too!
The tech in general just isn't good enough to do that much more. It's like having a coal powered steam engine and then saying you'll build a formula 1 car with it. They thought that with throwing enough money at the wall, a few breakthroughs in tech would fall out, but it doesn't work like that. If you're very lucky you hit one breakthrough, but they needed a few.
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Maybe you shouldn't have made it ~~so shit~~
You could have, you know, not bought and ruined oculus, and destroyed the VR ecosystem.
I was at GDC the year of the acquisition. There were Facebook suits walking around the showroom floor writing checks to sign exclusivity deals with anyone showing off a VR game.
That is a way more legit reason to still be mad, in my book, and it predates the Facebook acquisition. Oculus had made all that noise about how their devices would be platform agnostic and they wouldn't try to railroad you into buying games through their platform and the moment there was money buzz around the idea Luckey dropped that stuff like it was red hot and we ended up with the travesty that is the PC Oculus store.
I don't think VR was ever going to be mainstream, but imagine what the software ecosystem would be if techbro Smeagol hadn't gotten greedy for that precious, precious investment money.
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90% of technology companies quit before making a hit VR product. We should encourage Meta to spend more.
Let's hope Meta sinks every last dime of their profit into "the next big thing" that is their VR division
I'd much rather see meta burn money into the fun project that is VR rather than AI or crypto.
Meh, the problem will always be that Meta will use its VR platform as a data vacuum first and foremost, which makes it a nonstarter (at least for me)
Well, if I didn't have to make a face book log in to use one. If not for that I would consider one to play in steam. Even if I had to have it tethered.
That wouldn't be better for the company. They probably don't make money on selling the hardware.
Yeah, that's the entire deal of it. And why it's lame.
Same sentiment except additionally I will never buy anything from Facebook because they are radicalizing people.
Not going to buy an Apple Vision either if it won't behave as a generic screen for any OS.
I am utterly sick of the account requirement and proprietary connector bullshit from every company.
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[Publicly traded company] unhappy with how much money [division] burns. Suggests putting the money into stock buybacks.
Wow, this is some hard- hitting journalism that couldn't possibly write itself!
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According to the report, the company’s chief financial officer, Susan Li, told staff the division has lost $55 billion since 2019.
$55 billion in losses over ~5 years? That's a substantial amount.
Holy shit, give me just one billion per year and I'll build you a sexier failure.
give me one billion period and ill build you a kickass vr set without bullshit, and ill probably have money spare for me and possible descendants to retire. people underestimate how much money one billion actually is.
People underestimate how much a fucking Million is! It's like a lifetime salary (3k/m for 27.8 years).
We should call billions thousand millions.
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meta: makes vr division
also meta: is shocked it bleeds money
keep in mind meta didnt make occulus, they bought it out. Oculus is just on the list of silicon valley startups that suceeded in getting bought out and profited from. (of the 10x more that fail)
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They didn't make shit. They did what Google loves to do and they bought a highly successful, incredibly progressive company. And now it's shit, just like alllll the others that got bought out by big names.
Good. Learning Facebook bought Oculus was fucking depressing as shit.
What they've done to it since has been worse than what most (if not all) of us expected.
Oculus was created by Palmer Lucky.
Palmer Lucky's new company is making AI drones and roboos for the military.
Nothing of value was lost.
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Damn. Sorry to hear about that emotion a soulless corporation is having.
Lemmy hates Meta but honestly the Quest 3 is a fantastic headset. I use mine semi-regularly for wireless Steam VR.
I don't think anybody is under the impression that their engineers are stupid or that they can't make decent hardware when they want to.
They just rightly think that Facebook is an absolutely evil company.
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Too bad that it will turn into a brick once meta decides to axe their VR department.
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It felt better when VR was the hot new buzzword, right? Oh well, there's the AI division also burning money, but at least it's the current buzzword!
Do VR/AR glasses like in the picture actually exist?
The Xreal Air~, or the just-being-released Xreal Air 2 Ultra, is potentially that.
Oled displays and cameras for tracking objects and hands.
Edit: also just saw this
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