Valuy@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-222 hours agoI visited Meta's metaverse on the day it was supposed to shut down. I ended up in a horribly designed car park with no cars, for a restaurant that can sell no foodwww.prospectmagazine.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1204arrow-down16
arrow-up1198arrow-down1external-linkI visited Meta's metaverse on the day it was supposed to shut down. I ended up in a horribly designed car park with no cars, for a restaurant that can sell no foodwww.prospectmagazine.co.ukValuy@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-222 hours agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squarezurohki@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·18 hours agoThat couldn’t possibly have become a trillion dollar business, though. That was the fantasy they were selling to investors, a future where people would be living their whole lives in Meta’s virtual corporate dystopia.
minus-squarePabloSexcrowbar@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoSure it could have. They just needed to bolt a payment processor onto the whole mess and they’d have been printing money.
That couldn’t possibly have become a trillion dollar business, though. That was the fantasy they were selling to investors, a future where people would be living their whole lives in Meta’s virtual corporate dystopia.
Sure it could have. They just needed to bolt a payment processor onto the whole mess and they’d have been printing money.