Meta Horizon Worlds is a giant unlicensed and unmoderated daycare.
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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So there are people parking their toddlers in a VR world?
The overwhelming majority of vr world users are children ages 7-14. There are almost no adults. The adults that are there are trying to interact with kids in an environment where there is zero supervision.
But what about the zero people who used it? Whatever will they do?
Great News!
Nobody should use or support anything Meta. As a matter if principle.
The whole concept was dead on arrival. Second Life never took off and it was perplexing to see that Meta thought it could make it work.
What happened to Second Life anyway? All the gooners are on VRChat now and they seem to be doing fine
If a company can dump $100B into failed project and still be profitable they have too much money. Jesus, imagine would would happen if this money went to the workers instead...
It's actually crazy that you can burn $100B in a project that everybody mocked from the beginnings and still be CEO after that while having earned billions in compensation
This is a good reason not to let Jeff Bezos convince you that computer saas is a good idea.
Rent seeking. Landlords are leeches.
I was struggling to think whatbit was but you just solved that. They want rent, never for you to own anything, much less anything tangible that cant be taken away or revoked or forced to surrender
Appl does the same with music and videos. They want to license it to you and for you to have zero access to the actual files and brainwash entire ongoing new generations to not even understand a file system/owning real files and knowing where to get basically any file you want. The whole notion of a file having tangible value and operable
Lol at all the companies who got rugpulled again because they trusted Zuck's promises. Get rekt bozos.
But this time it will be totally different! They'll learn to love our AI slop! Trust me, bro!
Ugh pay-walled article
Can you explain how it is bad?
Not all news are bad news
One more piece of bad news for VR.
OP claims that this particular piece of news is somehow bad.
It is not OP claiming that. It is the description from the link preview.
I would still like to see an explanation of why it is bad. Regardless of who will provide that explanation :)
I would still like to see an explanation of why it is bad. Regardless of who will provide that explanation :)
Because they have Occulus' locked up in their basement and gimmick du jour is worse, now instead of just having a headset where you have to use their account and see ads for their shitty corpo vr chat every time you login you'll have a mandatory llm paperclip learning your habits and shilling 24/7
Bad for Meta. They wasted a lot of time, money, manpower etc.
Edit: I’m just answering the person’s question. I hate Meta - I don’t have Facebook and I don’t have a Quest.
Also kind of bad for VR that they bought Oculus and buried it under a ton of stuff no one asked for and will likely kill it entirely for failing to be the everyman's gateway to socialization like they strangely imagined it to be.
The true target market for Oculus is relatively niche, but probably could have sustained a more modest oculus. Meta's demands exceed what that market can give them.
Biggest hope for VR future right now is Steam Frame.
I have a quest. I still hate meta.
My next headset won't be from them, and I can't wait for them to realize they don't give a fuck about VR anymore and abandon it for another fad.
I won't regret their "metaverse" one bit. Killing their game dev studios is an unfortunate collateral, but, again, if it means they go out of that business, GOOD.
They could have bought second life a hundred times over and at least had something that worked (albeit poorly).