They have all that Google search money to throw around. The problem with being ahead of the curve is that you assume that everyone is following you. They suddenly realized they were all alone on a tangent nobody else was on.
People have been pushing 3D Web/VRML/whatever for a couple decades now. And it pretty much always fails. Because they're trying to map an inherently flat medium into a 3D environment.
So fuck-tons of money gets burnt and they go "Wow! Dunno why it failed! We figured this 300th time of doing the same shit would be different!"
I have a VR headset, but because they targeted app stores I don't use, I didn't even know this existed. Did Mozilla just fail to target a broad enough audience?
The actual news to me is they started it...
They have all that Google search money to throw around. The problem with being ahead of the curve is that you assume that everyone is following you. They suddenly realized they were all alone on a tangent nobody else was on.
People have been pushing 3D Web/VRML/whatever for a couple decades now.
And it pretty much always fails. Because they're trying to map an inherently flat medium into a 3D environment.
So fuck-tons of money gets burnt and they go "Wow! Dunno why it failed! We figured this 300th time of doing the same shit would be different!"
They should have just rebranded it Firefox Metaverse -- then they'd be rolling in VC cash.