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Facebook shutting down its Horizon Worlds VR Metaverse (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 2 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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the Metaverse just didn’t have legs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Hm95rQYpM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260318-facebook-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr - podcast

time: 6 min 29 sec

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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

In a rational world, that fiasco would have resulted in shareholders angrily blowing the e-mail inboxes and telephones of every member of the board of directors and Zuckerberg would have resigned in shame years ago.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2 points 21 hours ago

Seriously. Instead he announced he was going to be throwing somewhat less money into that specific dumpster fire and the investors decided that was worth 4%.

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