Meta lost $77bn on VR?

@csstrowbridge @alicemcalicepants

I think it will be really hard to measure the impact. Because there are people who are leaving or have left the tech field because they are being forced to use this "AI" crap and would rather just not deal with it anymore.

Or the generation of people who didn't go into computer science because of it. There are going to be so many second-order consequences it'll be almost impossible to know the true extent of the damage for a decade or more.

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@alicemcalicepants Big oof. They could have put all that money into A.I. instead!

laugh track

@alicemcalicepants (I haven't seen all the comments to your post, but the ones I've seen seem to have completely missed the joke, which is a pity because it was an excellent joke with a brilliant reference)

@oblomov

I'm one of those poor bastards who missed the reference and hence the joke. Please enlighten me.

EDIT: Oh. Ooooh. Ah. hehe, genious.

@alicemcalicepants

@JorisMeys @oblomov it took Meta a really long time to figure out how to put legs on avatars in the metaverse/an idea that 'doesn't have legs' is a bad one. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-quest-world-legs-avatars-mark-zuckerberg-1850787409

@alicemcalicepants @oblomov Thx! I just realized what you were playing at. Thank you for the giggles

@JorisMeys @alicemcalicepants

The characters in the Meta VR famously had no legs (in their 3D models) until very late in development, and only in some specific circumstances (random article about the topic: <https://www.pcmag.com/news/avatars-in-meta-horizons-finally-get-legs-this-time-for-real>)

@alicemcalicepants @JorisMeys @oblomov nice pun!

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The reason why most of our muscular mass is below our waists is that we are supposed to be walking most of the time. Our whole species are walkers. We walk upright. It’s kind of a big deal.

@JorisMeys @oblomov

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That corporations can just piss out $77 billion no worries is a YUGE part of the problem.

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@alicemcalicepants they were outdone by weirdo furry hobbyists.

@alicemcalicepants meta: can't even do LEGS in VR

furries: "hey here's a hacky way to make a BCI move your tail and ears in VR."

@alicemcalicepants ayyyyy

@alicemcalicepants @patterfloof I guess with all those headsets, they couldn't see it coming either...

@alicemcalicepants I guess they didn't have sufficient vision...

@alicemcalicepants At least some people were employed during that. No idea where they buried all that money though.