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It appears Meta may be ready to put the metaverse out of its misery (cnn.com)
jsheard 1 days ago [-]
It's a good thing they didn't do anything really embarrassing like rename the whole company after it.
rl3 1 days ago [-]
I suspect the greater intent was a sort of morality car wash for their branding.

The new name is general enough they're not tied to any specific business model despite the etymology of the rename.

f30e3dfed1c9 20 hours ago [-]
> they're not tied to any specific business model

That would be really useful if they had more than one business model but they don't and probably aren't going to.

biglyburrito 1 days ago [-]
It's really too bad... I was hoping they'd continue flushing all that money down the drain.
jsheard 1 days ago [-]
For real though, Meta flushing all that money down the drain is keeping VR as a whole hanging on by a thread. I'm not sure whether it survives if they pull back to focus on Google Glass 2 or whatever.
biglyburrito 23 hours ago [-]
VR as envisioned by an ill-intented corporation like Meta isn't something that deserves to succeed. The sooner the Metaverse dies, the better.
methuselah_in 20 hours ago [-]
Well, even htc had let go this dream i guess long ago. Now new device from steam maybe help to do this with games
richardatlarge 18 hours ago [-]
"meta" can actually mean many different things

so can, "colossal" and "stupendous"

ChrisArchitect 20 hours ago [-]
Previously on Bloomberg source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148080
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