What a comical waste of $80 Billion. Coulda bought two Twitters with that money instead and still come out on top.
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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Coulda fed an entire country in the real world
Huh? Ohh, you joke, poors aren't real people!
I cannot fathom how $80billion was spent without anyone skimming off the top...and the middle....and the bottom.
I’m entirely convinced the whole thing was invented to scam Meta. So congrats to all the people who got paid along the way!
$80bn for VR Miis that didn't have legs until last year
$80bn for "We have VRChat at home"
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.
Instead they bought Moltbook, the reddit for ai bots (only ai bots can post)
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.
'Meta will shut down'
Hurray! oh? There's more to the title? Damn.
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.
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.
20? Seems overly generous
I wanted them to feel better about themselves
Come on now, Zuckerberg doesn’t have 20 accounts, 12 at the most
I don't know why you'd think that, Human McHuman, YesImHuman, NotaLizard, NotaRobot, Normal Man, CEOsRPeople, MeritocracyWins are all owned by zuckerbot
You forgot all the variations of "Smokin Meats".
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?
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