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Facebook shutting down its Horizon Worlds VR Metaverse (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 4 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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the Metaverse just didn’t have legs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Hm95rQYpM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260318-facebook-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr - podcast

time: 6 min 29 sec

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[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 37 points 4 months ago

Against all odds they found a worse future to pursue than forcing employees to strap VR goggles to their heads 40 hours a week, and have pivoted towards AI.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 22 points 4 months ago

And toward mass surveillance.

When you look deep into who's pushing all these new 'age verification' laws all the sudden, Meta's fingerprints are all over it.

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