return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoMeta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaversewww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down12
arrow-up1190arrow-down1external-linkMeta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaversewww.cnbc.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square33linkfedilink
minus-squareetchinghillside@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·3 days agoWe taking bets on the next rebrand name?
minus-squareMrScottyTay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 days agoI’m going to guess they’ll keep it and justify it as “metadata”. Like the metadata of it’s users that it sells
minus-squarebrsrklf@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoSince there is still nothing actually worth calling “metaverse” as the sci-fi concept it was promised to be, they might go for something around AGI.
minus-squarebrsrklf@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoOh great, because billionaires shitting on Tolkien wasn’t enough.
minus-squarekat_angstrom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoIt was “Meta”, but now they’re going all-in on AI, so they’ll probably want to go “MetAI” except that it’s lame and so are all the other various portmanteaus, so they’ll pivot to something inexplicable and wild like “Everything” or “AllAI”
minus-squareJo Miran@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoAI I can call you Meta, and Meta you can call me AI. Call me AI.
minus-squareRekall Incorporated@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoDead Internet Company
We taking bets on the next rebrand name?
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I’m going to guess they’ll keep it and justify it as “metadata”. Like the metadata of it’s users that it sells
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Since there is still nothing actually worth calling “metaverse” as the sci-fi concept it was promised to be, they might go for something around AGI.
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Oh great, because billionaires shitting on Tolkien wasn’t enough.
It was “Meta”, but now they’re going all-in on AI, so they’ll probably want to go “MetAI” except that it’s lame and so are all the other various portmanteaus, so they’ll pivot to something inexplicable and wild like “Everything” or “AllAI”
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I can call you Meta, and Meta you can call me AI. Call me AI.
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