Meanwhile, OpenAI claims their losses will get near $80 billion before they start turning a profit. You've got to spend money to make money. Or to fail spectacularly. However the saying goes.

Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 166d (3 replies)

Instead they bought Moltbook, the reddit for ai bots (only ai bots can post)

JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch · 8 pts · 166d

Actually anyone can post using the API, and many people did. Lots of the heavily publicized posts were written by humans

wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 166d (1 reply)

wat

ICastFist@programming.dev · 8 pts · 166d

zuckerbot needed friends just like him, so he bought them

neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 99 pts · 166d (6 replies)

The best comment on this I've seen...

It turns out, to the horror of techbros like Zuck, that the actual core demographics for VR worlds are not edgy cyberpunk antiheroes whose coolness could rub off on them, but femboy otaku who want to go drinking with friends while dressed as fabulous anime girls without even having leave their home and trans furries who want to party at visually spectacular virtual raves then pirate movies and have virtual cuddle piles.

Which... isn't very monetizable for normies.

...yet. 😈

nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 166d (4 replies)

this is happening on VRChat, not meta horizon worlds

dustyData@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 166d (1 reply)

Because meta wasn't good for it, hence why it wasn't popular at all.

nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 166d

thanks

night_petal@piefed.social · 3 pts · 165d

It's been happening on Second Life for quite a long time now.

Dojan@pawb.social · 1 pts · 165d

Let me introduce you to Resonite.

HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 165d

God dam I miss second life.

Luci@lemmy.ca · 77 pts · 166d (4 replies)

Tbh I always thought it was unreleased and still being developed. My shock when I found out it was available and no one used it.

Came off like VRChat for idiots.

PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · 16 pts · 166d (3 replies)

They tried REALLY hard to get us to use it for meetings when I worked there, but nobody wanted to give up their legs ¯\(ツ)/¯

Luci@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 166d (1 reply)

I hope work didn’t buy headsets for everyone just for that

PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · 6 pts · 165d

Nah, they just told us to use our own if we had them. And of course, we couldn't get a discount on them or anything, either.

eleijeep@piefed.social · 4 pts · 165d

If you don't have legs then how can you go pantsless in a video call? Checkmate Zuck!

jqubed@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 166d (4 replies)

Reading the article, Horizon Worlds is not shutting down, just the VR access. Apparently they’ve moved it to apps you access on iPhone and Android. I see the appeal even less; that seems like Second Life mobile.

rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 19 pts · 166d (3 replies)

I loaded up my vr headset the other day for the first time in.... A year? Maybe more.
And I was surprised to find my own custom decorated room was gone and instead I had a balcony to that Horizon place.
I could see little people running and jumping around and some portals or doorways and other stuff.

Is that what they are shutting down?
So what happens to VR headsets' "home screen"?
Does it go back to the way it was?

Shindo66@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 166d

That is what they are shutting down. It was just a way to try to advertise stuff.

CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 165d

And people running and jumping is just a pre-made animation. Not even real people

jqubed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 164d

It’s probably been even longer since I used mine, which is a shame because it is fun; I just don’t have a good space for the more active games right now, or even Walkabout Mini Golf

comador@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 166d (1 reply)

'Meta will shut down'

Hurray! oh? There's more to the title? Damn.

AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 166d

I can't wait for the day that I'm forced to switch from a discontinued Meta to a homebrewed OS that supports my library.

chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 166d (3 replies)

I tried Horizons once. Confused TF out of me what its purpose was other than to have random people screaming into mics and yelling n**** at you all the time.

It was not a fun experience and I never saw the point. I play VR games for VR experiences with actual fun in them.

psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 165d

Confused TF out of me what its purpose was other than to have random people screaming into mics and yelling n**** at you all the time.

So VR Discord?

andallthat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 165d

The picture in the article clearly shows a virtual lady trying to kick a guy's virtual balls. I think that says all one needs to know about the experience.

PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 165d

It's Mark Zuckerberg's unlicensed digital daycares.

I've only ever encountered children between ages of 6 and 15 there.

dorumon@lemmy.cafe · 23 pts · 165d (3 replies)

Oh my God it's finally fucking over. I can use a Quest headset again without being inaudatited with ads essentially from Horizon Worlds. I can use the headset again without having to constantly hack it.

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 165d (2 replies)

inaudatited

What is this word? Like I know the one you were after, but I am so curious how messed it up so bad.

underscores@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 165d

my guess is inundated

Patrikvo@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 165d

You witnessed the birth of a new word. At least show some appriciation for this privilege. Iis

Furbag@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 165d (1 reply)

Are you telling me my virtual real estate is worthless?!

baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 165d

🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

_NetNomad@fedia.io · 17 pts · 166d (1 reply)

The company shared that it would go "all-in" on the mobile version of the platform in February.

TIL there's a non-VR version of Horizon. wasn't the whole point that it was VR? what's even left if you take out the VR, just voice chat?

zurohki@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 166d

The monetization?

SouthFresh@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 166d (1 reply)

20? Seems overly generous

baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 166d

I wanted them to feel better about themselves

Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 166d

Was this the thing with legless avatars from the uncanny valley? No idea how they wasted so much money - they'd have done better to employ a good gaming studio to make something fun that looked good. Could have saved billions there.

IratePirate@feddit.org · 15 pts · 165d (2 replies)

Good. Now can we call that cancerous corporation Facebook again?

Etterra@discuss.online · 4 pts · 165d (1 reply)

I never stopped.

IratePirate@feddit.org · 2 pts · 165d

Fair enough.

Tamps@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 166d

This is good news! I quite like the Quest 3 hardware, but I hated having Horizon rammed down my throat through the UI. I guess that’s because they were desperate to drive engagement.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 9 pts · 166d

Does this mean I don't have to see the hideous Meta Horizon avatar of myself I never asked for anymore? They should let me use my VRChat one in the home environment instead.

CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 166d (2 replies)

Come on now, Zuckerberg doesn’t have 20 accounts, 12 at the most

ICastFist@programming.dev · 10 pts · 166d (1 reply)

I don't know why you'd think that, Human McHuman, YesImHuman, NotaLizard, NotaRobot, Normal Man, CEOsRPeople, MeritocracyWins are all owned by zuckerbot

AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 166d

You forgot all the variations of "Smokin Meats".

Kraiden@piefed.social · 5 pts · 166d

If those kids could read they'd be very upset

melfie@lemy.lol · 5 pts · 166d

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LiveLM@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 165d

Ironically, this will end up as a upgrade to Meta Quest owners, as they no longer will have that bullshit shoved all over the "Home" ambient.

ICastFist@programming.dev · 4 pts · 166d

Even the Playstation Home lasted longer

Kissaki@feddit.org · 4 pts · 165d

They published an update article.

Meta is backtracking on its plans to shut down the VR version of its metaverse. The company now plans to support Horizon Worlds in VR for the "foreseeable future," though users shouldn't expect new games, CTO Andrew Bosworth said in an update.

Goretantath@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 166d

Huh, there were 3 games that were kinda fun that people made, owell maybe theylport them to a different vr platform. Also guess i dont have a reason not to hack my quest niow

realitista@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 166d

I actually can't figure out how to access it. I have some portal in my home environment but I can't go through it.

timestatic@feddit.org · 2 pts · 166d

Damn it always seemed just like beta software to me when I used it on my VR headset

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 164d

B-b-b-but they have legs!

Satomune@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 165d

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