alt Hacker News> This is incompetent execution of an untested idea.
VR will be huge some day. Maybe not as huge as the Metaverse hype, but huge nonetheless.
But did you expect Facebook to have any competence on making it? Even if the timing was correct, what differentiator do they have?
And then the CEO throws a world-changing amount of money without even an idea (because "a VR world!" isn't an idea). Did you expect any of that money not to be wasted? That's not how products are made.
The Metaverse wasn't an organization failure. It was all Zuckenberg's incompetence, Facebook didn't even get the chance to try.
The AI started different, but it's becoming the same thing again.
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> VR will be huge some day. Maybe not as huge as the Metaverse hype, but huge nonetheless.
I really doubt this. There’s too many people who suffer from motion sickness to make this payoff. 33% of the population suffers from motion sickness to varying degrees and current mitigations including blowing a fan at suffering users, is an unrealistc barrier to causal usage.
> Even if the timing was correct, what differentiator do they have?
Being willing to put $80 billion on the line is a differentiator. It can subsidize hardware, hire talent, acquire companies, etc.
There were definitely ideas beyond just "VR good". But frankly, giving some of the high level employees he had (Boswell and Luckie and Carmack among others) $10billion each to make VR products they think should exist is something that would probably work
No.
VR is not going to be huge, and it misses the entire point of tech.
Think of something like a Bloomberg terminal. Ugly as sin, and incomprehensible to any one who hasn’t practiced using it. It also gets work done faster, and has a keyboard with multiple keys to get to menus faster.
BB terminals save calories. VR does not.
VR is cool, it is aspirational, but it is not saving experts, let alone the average person, time and energy.
VR won’t be huge someday. We won’t live to see it at least. We also won’t experience quantum computing having a real world impact. We also won’t see humanoid robots doing any meaningful real world work. There also won’t be a Mars base in our lifetime or datacenters in space or underwater. There won’t be any flying cars either.