I suspect we will be awash in critical comments shortly, so let me just say I'm kind of excited about this.
Don't forget that the internet was originally a military project. I'm excited to see a huge corporation going all in on VR and AR. It has the potential to be really interesting technology, and the research in displays, sensors, and other hardware and software won't go to waste.
If "Meta" is the new ARPANET, I wonder what the new CERN and web will be.
> If "Meta" is the new ARPANET, I wonder what the new CERN and web will be.
Lets not get ahead of ourselves. This so called "Metaverse" will be another proprietary project that may or may not gain traction unless they open it up for federation. And facebook is all about walled gardens so they won't.
And if they do, how do we know that 10 years later they wont shutter up their instance, cut off the federated parts to monopolize their own (presumably biggest) instance.
We know this from the congressional hearings - its hardly insightful.
Very few can handle bad actors at the scale they have to. But no they were clearly not ready. Not sure what tech company really showed success at this sort of scale. Twitter could barely stay above their toxic sludge of content, Youtube is even more full of misinformation, reddit is not free of controversial decisions - hell, even good ol' SMS and phone is a heap of robocalls and spam.
> They pay $500m to Accenture to scrub the digital graffiti and hate speech off their walls.
They have like 40k people acting as moderators. They have teams of people to triage issues related to election interference. They have teams dedicated to tracking bot rings and foreign astro turfing.
There is still more to do, but they hardly just pay a consultancy to "scrub the digital graffiti and hate speech off their walls."
Except ARPANET and CERN conducted their research for a larger audience, much of it making its way to the public. FB/Meta research is largely proprietary.
Im excited for this too, Meta seems to be his passion project that he wants to be remembered for, and if he sticks to his word of opening up Oculus for easier development and letting you sign in without FB this will really take off. The comments here remind me of slashdot comments saying the iPod sucked because it had less storage than a zen nano and was overpriced, or the iphone would flop because business users needed a keyboard.
Don't forget that the internet was originally a military project. I'm excited to see a huge corporation going all in on VR and AR. It has the potential to be really interesting technology, and the research in displays, sensors, and other hardware and software won't go to waste.
If "Meta" is the new ARPANET, I wonder what the new CERN and web will be.