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I visited Meta's metaverse on the day it was supposed to shut down. I ended up in a horribly designed car park with no cars, for a restaurant that can sell no food (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)
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[โ€“] realitista@lemmus.org 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If they had been smart, they would have bought VRchat and Rec Room and left the teams alone to figure out how to merge those existing worlds and grow organically from there.

[โ€“] zurohki@aussie.zone 9 points 2 hours ago

That couldn't possibly have become a trillion dollar business, though. That was the fantasy they were selling to investors, a future where people would be living their whole lives in Meta's virtual corporate dystopia.