Not at all! Done right, we could have ended up in a sci-fi future strapped to our VR headsets all day long. But the real life, physical technology is just not here yet (maybe it's impossible and never will be), the software they invented for their lacking headsets is disgustingly bad (Horizon Worlds) and there is no nameworthy content.
I assume his advisors and tech leads all pulled the wool over his eyes and sold him their lofty dreams as tangible reality.
When I read this phrase, the spaceship from Wall-E comes to mind. But in reality, it would probably look a little bit more dystopian than what Pixar imagined...
I still think VR might be a hard sell for most people. As dumb as large groups of people may be, it's clear that people are ditching FB and slowly backing away from a lot of social media. It's tricking out that it's not always a great thing, and there is legit buy-in from huge chunks of the Left and Right to restrict what social media does.
I by no means wanted to exclude myself from the groups I so derogatively named. Hacker News is pure infotainment to me. The quality is above reddit though, but that's not a high bar.
> it's clear that people are ditching FB and slowly backing away from a lot of social media
Are they? To me it looks like TikTok addiction and stupidity is continuously peaking.
I do hate that Zuck ruined the word meta for everyone.
He just had really, really good marketing, and products that landed at just the right time.