Penny Arcade - Comic - Borizon Churlds

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Penny Arcade - Comic - Borizon Churlds

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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dennis

There is very little exaggeration in this strip. It's amazing just how unambitious and visionless Meta's version of the metaverse is.

Luckily, you can 100% ignore their vision and still happily use VR. There are plenty of other cool spaces and experiences that you can sometimes even forget Meta exists at all.

YoungFrey

dennis wrote: »

There is very little exaggeration in this strip. It's amazing just how unambitious and visionless Meta's version of the metaverse is.

Luckily, you can 100% ignore their vision and still happily use VR. There are plenty of other cool spaces and experiences that you can sometimes even forget Meta exists at all.

They say Mark Zuckerberg is scarier because he's the smart billionaire, but decisions like Horizon Worlds make it really hard for me to believe that.

Note: For some reason autocorrect wants me to say "Beiderbecke" instead of "Zuckerberg". Is this some kind of inside joke on the part of Firefox? If so, I highly approve.

Preacher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q

I mean these kind of things are just destined to fail, they do what we can already do but worse?

Grendus

I've said it before and I stand by it.

If Meta had just bought Rec Room and added an API to launch other games from inside it with contiguous group settings (so you could meet up in Rec Room, then go play Star Trek Bridge Commander or something) and made the API open so other VR headsets could use it (via your Meta/Facebook account, obviously... might actually get me to create a hollow one just for that) it would have worked far better than any of the "metaverse" stuff they've tried to create on their own.

dennis

Possibly. Personally, I hate Rec Room on many different axes. I tried it again recently and was still disappointed by a lot of the implementation. The idea is sound, though.

Ironically, they also had their own system where you could invite people to your home environment, and a party system, and in theory that was all they needed for meeting up with people and launching other apps. But that didn't let them own anything that made money. It was also probably a totally different team than the Churlds team, with different people pushing for it.

Cross-platform would have involved enough moving parts and complications that I can totally understand why they'd avoid it.