How is this shit costing billions of dollars? It looks like stock assets you could download free off the Unity store.
How is this shit costing billions of dollars? It looks like stock assets you could download free off the Unity store.
How is this shit costing billions of dollars? It looks like stock assets you could download free off the Unity store.
it's called money laundering
The zuck is literally an out of touch robotic reptile who probably never played a game in his life.
Also
He literally said he was playing VR Chat in a podcast with Lex Fridman
That some good meat fibers
He did buy a frickload of software house, 3d studio and tech companies
yeah
don't money laundering have to actual returns so that the money is "laundered"?
yeah, it's not the right word, since zuck's money is ostensibly clean
in MOTHEPЛAHD it's called "пилить бюджeт", where some third party firm (and thus its employees) is funnelled obscene amounts of allocated (usually by the government) budget yet does miniscule work
not sure if there's a specific term beyond general israelitery
The word is embezzlement.
That, or "padding the wallets" of your business mates.
The money does return when the entities you pay for doing the job for you are owned by you
elaborate
Amazon does this shit with RoPe too. Why would ~~*they*~~ spend billions of $$$ and hire the most untalented, souless people in industry?
The funniest of all is that liberals will defend ~~*their*~~ garbage product just because it has Black folk in them and call you an incel lmao.
amazon pulled the same shit with that trash mmo new world
its budget was in hundreds of millions
They should RoPe themselves
The only people defending the Meta shitshow is a certain minority of technically inept people with an interest in gadgets who easily become obsessed with whatever is being marketed right now, the kind of people who got seriously into NFTs. This crap is universally laughed at. I have no idea where you have gotten the impression that liberals would have any special affinity for this.
just because a technology is universally laughed at does not mean it won't turn around the future. you might not be wrong in that case, or in most cases even but your resasoning is that of a sheep.
yeah, metaverse is more to sell an idea than the concept itself. Same with Stadia.
Both are "too advanced" right now, but like horse armor which was laughed at, it became stardard practice like a cancer growing.
prepare for a future where you literally own nothing and you can only be what your owners tell you you can wear
I swear I have seen these exact post, word by word, image by image a few weeks ago
is the matrix breaking down again?
>is the matrix breaking down again?
It's only just now being built.
Don't worry anon, I've experienced threads like this before. You're on one of the more popular boards so it's susceptible fake/repeat threads. If you frequent /misc/ you'll see this kind of stuff all the time.
i used to think this was insanity and a meme, but i genuinely fully believe this now
You're not laundering money if you aren't getting any profit out of the business you're using
Tanking your stock price from 330 to 130 is not money laundering it's incompetence.
Facebook money probably goes back to Blackrock in the form of Black person aid and various other cuckold bullshit like ~~*charity*~~ then they go and sex traffic Mexicans across the border
Silicon valley payments to a huge dev team sitting on their ass.
It's because of this. People really underestimate how bloated Facebook is.
the 'billions of dollars' also encompasses the hardware and its development. While yes zuck is wasting money on shit like that which looks like dogshit, he is also pouring money into new hardware development.
also money laundering, but you didnt hear that from me
>the hardware and its development
I thought the Quest 2 was already developed what more is there to do
Quest 3 + Pro, they really made some dumb choices hardware wise, they kinda made an eerie prototype that displays artifical eyes where your eyes behind the helmet should be, for people who look at you play to see.
Kinda creepy.
>what? They make moronic prototypes
Yep
Meta Quest Pro just arrived.
Nobody gives a shit about it.
Probably didn't expect anyone to.
Or... hopefully didn't.
Only marginally better, intended for dev usage
It's not for you to consoom
Indeed.
i assumed Quest 2 was the end of it
this shit isnt as crucial as a phone how can he justify this incremental bullshit to consumers?
No, it's an incremental release. Quest was the first, then Quest 2, then Quest 3.
Quest Pro is for professionals, not for gamers.
Most haven't bought ANYTHING related to VR yet.
So they still have to increment until the public bites.
Quest 2 sold like churros and hotcakes combined
It didn't really.
Sold more than the Xbone X at least
D'ohoho.
bunch of my normie friends bought a quest 1 when they had big sales just before Quest 2 was announced
Same normie friends have probably bought more than one laptop in their life as well though, right?
Money laundering scheme, one could assume.
Tell people that don't know shit about games that it's really expensive to make this, while making th emoney disappear out to other destinations.
I'm not sure Zuck is able to convince anyone under the age of 40 that he actually WANTS to make this shit in the first place.
It is? I thought there were several metaverses.
Most of the money is going into research and data collecting. They aren't developing anything really groundbreaking because it's built on the base of a virtual office and they don't know what to do with it or how to go about making a metaverse.
The funny thing is that some suits have been convinced it's possible to funnel the existing userbase of Facebook into a social VR-platform.
>It's the next big thing!
Sure. And everybody's got their smartphone strapped to their arm Leela-style too.
The real money goes into making any of these reptillian pedophiles a likeable caricature of themselves to normalgays.
the hardware development is expensive as shit and facebook is selling the glasses at a loss
>laundering
have you ever figured that maybe sheer incompetency is the actual answer?
Thing is, he's not incompetent.
However, laundering might not be the correct word, as none of the money is dirty. The correct term would be embezzlement.
Money is likely to be spent on something bigger/different than what stockholders and the public (for now) are shown.
I was under the impression that they're making some new world order shit like Ready Player One. Doesn't matter what it looks like if they'll force people to work there in the future.
>Unity store
it is made in Unity
Making something in unity doesn't mean you have to use unity store assets.
please understand
Small indie developer
I don't even know what this metaverse shit is supposed to be
Is it like facebook-made Second Life?
Would be great if anyone could tell you.
FB doesn't even really know what they want to promise you in terms of activities.
Basically take VRChat, make generic shitty avatars instead of weeb stuff, and try to push the idea that making people hold office meetings in your shitty app is innovative.
Should I pull the Black person come this sale?
>he uses the n word so much that trigger auto corrects to it
>n word
go back
No, I used it deliberately because Ganker loves it.
true i loved your post thank you
>Zucc makes a Zoom call chat room powered by Oculus so rich out of touch CEOs can show off with super expensive reunions using unnecessary tech
>It's already a bad idea, but fake until you make it
>Zucc sees moronic normies wasting money on NFTs and Lootboxes and says "Wait... I can win money by selling NOTHING??"
>Comes up with some bullshit way of integration for cryptobros. "Yeah! You can buy like... Land and... I don't fricking know... A house maybe?"
>Media morons who never heard of second life and habbo hotel come up asking "OH MY GOD! YOU WILL REPLACE REALITY??? THIS IS LITERALLY MY FAVORITE MOVIE "READY PLAYER ONE"
>Zucc:...what... OH YEAH! SURE! IT WILL BE LIKE FRICKING TRON OR SOME SHIT
>Wastes 90% on marketing, hire some small team to recreate Playstation Home but shittier
Not really, meta's metaverse is just a vrchat of sorts.
the literal public made crowd sourced stuff made in vrchat is decades ahead of whatever the frick this is, its pathetic
He's inventing the wheel bro
And this time, he starts with an octagon, to show us why round is nicer.
>sell mobile phone for 1500€
>buy it every year
>sell console with shitty graphics but VR every bout of years for 500€
>oh no, scammer
This.
If y'all think VR is great, you better keep buying keep it chugging, even if it isn't quite there yet.
i'm waiting for the full on matrix sword art online type vr. seems like a novelty at the moment thats only good for racing/piloting sims.
Never happening wihtout mandatory brainwash
then looks like i'm never buying vr
>y'all
>implying the average anon doesn’t also call the former a scam
My smartphone is 5 years old, and the only reason I replaced the one I had before it is because this one was an outgoing model they marked down to like 30% of msrp
I work at coca-cola and marketing is freaking out about this saying this is the future and we need a robust metaverse hub I am telling them they are moronic but they wont listen.
Use a food analogy like Ganker always does
Why would a soft drink brand need a "robust metaverse hub"?
I haven't even had a reason to visit their website EVER.
Because they can selll you merchandise that has zero value being virtual
Ok. I guess.
They're already selling water with zero calories, so cutting out the transportation and bottling sounds brilliant.
Just make people believe that THINKING about Coca-Cola will leave them feeling refreshed.
I don't know what your job is but you're a failure and you're right
No matter how dumb the idea is, coca cola sponsors it and their brand is everywhere
Why the frick would they not have the best méta verse hub? They already own the drinkable water of numerous countries
Facebook is responsible for the current inflated IT worker salaries. Once they go down all the software "engineers" will be brought back to earth with the wages they actually deserve.
please to be coding your virtuous reality sir
>tfw you realize Gaia online is a way better metaverse compared to Mark's cuckverse.
>Cute avatars
>Third party market for old collectibles
>Towns and the weird Scion car version were fun alternatives to AIM/MSN/Yahoo
No shit
How do I get Zuck to contract me for paid asset flips on his metaverse?
bribe him with motor oil
it has to be a good vintage tho
mwaaaaaah the motor oil
funding the underground child sex orgies then subsequent cannibal feasts
it's weird I remember playing a game like this where you were in a vr world during sleep time and they had a soft drink company make a web page. did zuck play that game too and decide to make it real?
The money they're investing is for creating a parallel internet that will try to replace all websites. No separate user accounts, hosting services, domain names, etc. Just use your meta account. The Horizons VR application is one front end to interact with it, but thats all that's been shown to the public.
Pay the literal thousands of diversity hires in make-work positions that accomplish nothing all day, along with running the adult day-care centres at the FB offices. Have you ever seen how these places operate? They have an entire campus with departments for catering and relaxation and the like. 5 star dining. Arcades. Fully-stocked bar with high-end liquor. Silicon Valley makes so much money they cannot burn it fast enough
i've always wondered about that. how can you get any work done with that many distractions? also, there's no time in the day to actually enjoy any of it, right? you go to work at 8, 10 minute lunch a 09:30, 25 minute lunch at 12:00, and then just work work work until 16:00. isn't this how they do it over there? this is how it works in europe pretty much anywhere. you slack off too much and stretch those breaks too much and you get insta-frickin fired, i can tell you, the eurogays don't frick around with the breaks.
Here’s how Zucc can still turn it around and make metaverse work
> buy hoe-girlve, nijisanji and vshojo
> buy vrchat
> remove mod ban
> mandate your vtubers use meta products on stream
> endless collabs where you can meet vtubers in vrchat
> buy rights to popular anime characters
> make roblox style platform where the user create games
> you have to use a meta account to do all of the above
Zucc is trying to make it into this for normie office folk to use, not the VR niche that makes money.
>Second Life is almost 20 years old
>lets you do far more things with way better freedom as to avatar customization and world/lot building
>even the graphics are better instead of looking like bottom of the barrel mobile garbo
I don't get it.
Even The Sims 4, the sim game with the LEAST effort put into it, looks better than this shit.
money laundering + corporate bloat
i dunno why they give a frick about metaverse in the first place. virtual hangouts are dead they're like nearly 20 years late to that shit. just focus on getting good games on the Quest 2 and make sure whenever the Quest 3 comes out it is more powerful and as simple as the Quest 2 is.
I'm mildy interested in the AR monitors but not nearly enough to actually pay that shitload of money. Metaverse is basically google glass 2 in how much of a failure it's going to be
Kino
I guess most of money went into marketing.
Satanic rituals are not free you know.
you are playing World Baby are you Ganker?
literally took a month and 40 iterations to model his avatar
i bet they tried making vr zuxk as real as they could in the beginning. the zukk didn't like how his ugly face looked in hyper-real vr, so he made them make him more cartoony-looking and cuter-looking and not as disgustingly israeli as he actually is in real life.
I have a morbid obsession with that video, I can't stop rewatching it
Sweet Jesus, how horrifying
I haven't seen it yet, I'm scared
They are trying to run a vr metavere on a fricking mobile phone, so it's not going to look great. But they could get much better art direction
billionaires only play it so it makes sense
he's taking boomer money from facebook and wasting it on diversity hires. that's supposed to be our generational wealth. as a result that money isn't available to most of this generation as it used to be. instead of giving money to their children, boomers are now funding incompetent morons.
because Zuck the duck has shit programmers. If i was Zuck the duck i would just copy Sonys home concept fully and let people do whatever they want in their spaces.
>Meta stocks are the lowest they've been
Time to buy shares Gankerros.
I would find this shit humiliating as an office drone. Gotta put on a zucculus rift so my cartoon avatar can attend a mandatory HR meeting on some bullshit. Meanwhile, boss is laughing on his way to the bank.
HARDWARE R&D, moronic homosexual
Personally I just think the concept is fricked. The only people who would indulge in this are hyper-autistic Second Life players and chatroom ERP-ers. The Second Life autists won't care because they've pored too much time, money and hours into SL. ERP-ers won't care because no one will feel comfortable ERP'ing degenerate shit knowing that Zuk-zuk is watching every action taken.
The only ones you have left are FOMO-gays who will leave the product in a month and boomers who don't know better (which is like 90% of the userbase of Facebook right now).
Even if they somehow manage to appeal to the latter it will at best be seen as a fun little gimmick.
I genuinely don't understand the audience for this.
big companies and publishers:
>can't spend too much on a risky product so they force game devs into using the same, proven and formulaic game design and features, limiting creative vision
also big companies:
>spend billions on a literal fricking unity asset-tier Second Life clone
the frick
if it's not money laundering then Zuck is moronic.