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Facebook shutting down its Horizon Worlds VR Metaverse (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [M] 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

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[–] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

In a rational world, that fiasco would have resulted in shareholders angrily blowing the e-mail inboxes and telephones of every member of the board of directors and Zuckerberg would have resigned in shame years ago.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yea, don't really have much sympathy for Meta investors, they continue to give money to a company where the founder has a 51% voting share.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Well, it's not really a rational world. I mean, Tesla stockholders somehow still want Elon in charge despite sales, brand value, public perception, and product quality declining under his watch.

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