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Wait but we have found a killer app for it, 3D videogames, isn't it? It's just not a market big enough for Meta since they want everyone to be using it so they are looking for bigger markets? But it seems to me there is a very clear and pocket-deep sector there.

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They haven’t really started trying. Half Life Alyx is still on the top of everyone’s list, but mac/quest2 users can’t play it.

Most quest 2 games feel like phone games. Super shallow, and not amazing.

Meta should bid for world of Warcraft. MMORPGs are the most successful form of metaverse to date.

I don't know if the smoldering wreckage of Activision-Blizzard could make the next WoW..

I highly doubt that the average mac can play half life alyx at acceptable performance levels. Aren't most of them laptops with integrated gpu?

If you’re a designer you used to get the Intel with Radeon cards.

I thought the M1 and M2 has reasonable graphics capabilities. https://www.techradar.com/news/apples-m1-chip-can-apparently....

That's the really funny thing about Meta's angle. VR is pretty exciting for games, there's a lot of potential there. A metaverse of games is actually an incredibly cool concept, with lots of possible ways to conceptualize that.

But they're not at all interested in that! They're betting big on some dubious niche productivity / social uses for VR. Even if you enjoy VR meetings, how is Meta going to make billions from that?

3rd-person video games can be fun — I really enjoyed playing Lucky's tale back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLantPfNRIY, but first-person games don't map half as well.

The HL 1/2 and Doom 1/2 ports severely disagree.

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