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Good for him. No one has done as much damage to AR/VR as FB did to it with the Metaverse. Way to make something cool fundamentally unlikable.

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I would actually put a lot of the blame for today's VR winter (or at least expectations cooldown) on Ready Player One, and particularly its movie adaptation. Not that it was bad per-se, but for me and others I spoke too it was so outlandish that it essentially made VR "jump the shark".

I would put it on VR having a grand total of 3 good applications: HL Alyx, VRChat and Beat Saber, one of which was doing the metaverse better than Facebook, and on a shoestring budget.

(I forgot sims).

Besides I wonder what does a company, whose entire product lineup revolves around looking cool and successful and admired in front of strangers with a product whose main mode of usage involves blindly flailing around in a room with a plastic box stripped to your face.

HL Alyx ruined most VR games for me because they never lived up to Half-Life, and no one but Valve could make such a high-profile game. VR is a genre that benefits A LOT from high budgets.

I enjoyed games like No Man's Sky in VR, but they just don't hit the same high notes.

Throw simming in there, too.

I've gotta know which side of Poe's law this falls on.

Was this written in earnest or as an ironic/facetious joke?

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