General / Off-Topic What is the Metaverse, exactly?

Robin of Spiritwood

Robin of Spiritwood
edition.cnn.com

Facebook is planning to change its name, report says

Facebook is planning to rebrand itself with a new name focused on the metaverse, the Verge reported on Tuesday, as the tech giant comes under fire from regulators around the world over its business practices.
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Faecesbook -er- Facebook wants to rebrand and dominate it, whatever it is.

www.reuters.com

Facebook plans to hire 10,000 in EU to build 'metaverse'

Facebook Inc plans to create 10,000 jobs in the European Union over the next five years, the social media giant said on Monday, to help build the so-called metaverse - an online world where people can use different devices to move and communicate in a virtual environment.
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Manticore

Manticore
More like Face-Ache-Book but I will pay Faecesbook...... seriously I wouldn't go near Zuckerberg's pathetic hegemony with a barge-pole. It's a toxic cultural garbage dump.
 

Manticore

Manticore
How about changing the name to Zuckerberg's Toilet? That's a good name.... I think the social media platform should disappear up Zuckerberg's metaverse; for all and good.
 
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Robin of Spiritwood

Robin of Spiritwood
Can't claim to understand this, but it obviously substantial.

www.bbc.com

Disney appoints executive to oversee metaverse strategy

Technology giants, including Meta and Microsoft, are pouring billions of dollars into the metaverse.
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Over the last couple months, tech firms have been headhunting each other.

To Fuel the Metaverse Market Charge, Meta has been Poaching Apple Engineers leading Apple to step up big bonuses to retain key Engineers - IPRefresh

On Sunday we reported that Apple may have hired Meta’s Director of Communications, Augmented Reality & Research at Reality Labs – though her LinkedIn profile doesn’t reflect that at the moment. Yet the bigger story...
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heromag.net

Meta is poaching staff from Microsoft and Apple for Metaverse plans - heromag

Employees from Microsoft and Apple are jumping on the bandwagon to join Meta Platforms as the company aims to create Metaverse.
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journaltime.org

Informations Highlights

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bossrush.net

RUMOR: Apple Poaching Microsoft Engineers to Make Video Game Console

On a recent episode of The Xbox Two Podcast, reporter Jez Corden of Windows Central suggested that Apple may be poaching engineers from Microsoft so that they could design their own console.
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Microsoft's recent moves to swallow Activision is apparently not game related. They are grabbing up content for their walled garden. Also they want 3 D game engineers to build out the VR based substructure.

This is going to impact all our entertainment, games and devices.
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
Ehh, seems premature to me. The tech just isn't there yet. They're throwing money at the VR world when the VR tech is still pretty crap. 🤷‍♂️ It's like making all those fusion powered cars and cities now....
 

Cmdr Kellett781

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Rubbernuke said:
Its this

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What you have there Rubbernuke is augmented reality. The Meta verse will be a completely digital VR environment. It will be the next version of the internet basically.

the way early internet users talk about dial up life before browsers… is how we will sound to our grandkids. They will find it hard to imagine a world without 3D cyberspace and indeed, augmented reality.

At the end of the day, FB is just building their own corner of the space. This thing will be as vast as the internet itself with all the big companies dropping cash to create spaces that they can then charge small time business to rent space within. It will literally be the end of most brick and mortar stores.

what I’m curious about is how these companies are going to agree to handle transitions from one space to the next. Say, moving from virtual Kroger grocery store to then go to virtual MGM Studios theme park.
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Cmdr Kellett781 said:
What you have there Rubbernuke is augmented reality. The Meta verse will be a completely digital VR environment. It will be the next version of the internet basically.

the way early internet users talk about dial up life before browsers… is how we will sound to our grandkids. They will find it hard to imagine a world without 3D cyberspace and indeed, augmented reality.

At the end of the day, FB is just building their own corner of the space. This thing will be as vast as the internet itself with all the big companies dropping cash to create spaces that they can then charge small time business to rent space within. It will literally be the end of most brick and mortar stores.

what I’m curious about is how these companies are going to agree to handle transitions from one space to the next. Say, moving from virtual Kroger grocery store to then go to virtual MGM Studios theme park.
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Indeed- what I was showing was corporate hell in the form of targeted ads, lame life coaches and pointless layers that will sit in it.

The Metaverse is just a giant MMO like we have seen, aspiring to be the Matrix and populated by companies who want to use it as a storefront.
 

SkipRat

SkipRat
One great big fat waste of time.

If it was something more akin to be set in a fantasy world, cyberpunks'ish or futuristic. Then yeah it could have been fun.

People complain about SC, Meta has cost $700 billion loses.
 
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