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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse

www.cnbc.com

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Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse

www.cnbc.com

return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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Meta is scaling back its metaverse focus, cutting studios and head count at Reality Labs to prioritize artificial intelligence.
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    We taking bets on the next rebrand name?

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      AI

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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.

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      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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      Nothing But Bots ™️

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      I can call you Meta, and Meta you can call me AI. Call me AI.

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