Awaiting Netcraft confirmation of its demise.
Even after the layoffs, most of these companies are larger than they were in the beginning of 2022
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Looks like a good time to score a bargain.
Facebook's Metaverse? No, not in its current state.
Is it possible? Sure.
I love all things Stephenson, but I think the more interesting use cases were presented in a sci-fi short story collaboration named "Metatopolis"
No spoilers for the storytelling, but some of the compelling environment there were people using VR/AR to live comfortably in storage containers on cargo ships (OK, maybe not that different from Snow Crash's portrayal of real estate), but also using it to telecommute through a network of on-site apprentices.
It makes me sick to my stomach to see technology used for dystopian ends like this. This is the kind of shit that makes me want to quit my job, buy a shack in remote Montana somewhere and just "check out" from dealing with "society". It's disgusting. Technology should help liberate and empower individuals, not empower progressively larger and larger and more powerful State bureaucracies.
VMS is dying, Netcraft confirms it.
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis