If I am serious, that presentation was an insight into the limits of the imagination and creativity of the management of the company. Just because you hit the jackpot doesn’t mean you have the talent to do whatever you think of, or even that those ideas you can think of are good.
https://twitter.com/danielheithorn/status/1453835901755396096
It honestly, and this is just me, looked like the normal, slightly-out-of-touch-rich-people-thinking-they-invented-everything routine. There was nothing interesting in what they showed, and most of the ideas were stale already decades ago.
I made a game with a meta-verse interface, and worked on an early cyberpunk game, both in the 90s. Both would not be considered useful interfaces. Second Life is a masterclass in what works and fails in these spaces and none of that learning seemed to be reflected either.
PlayStation tried and failed at a meta-verse model, as have many many other companies. So the question is, why would Facebook do better? It’s so weird that it makes me feel drunk. but I guess we will see now what happens when a social media audience is dragged into System Shock.
I must also point out here that Facebook (Meta) have an insanely talented AR/VR team lead by a brilliant and kind friend of mine. I worry that those people deserve a better vision to launch their hardware into, but at the very least, they’re getting funded to push it forward./end
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