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Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 27 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

One more piece of bad news for VR

VR is doing fine. It's a niche hobby for people like myself to feel like you're inside of a game, movie, or porn. If you're someone who does work on your own device, you can even work in VR.

The metaverse was a ridiculous idea, that is beaten by VRChat.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 6 points 14 hours ago

true

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 9 hours ago

For some reason, your comment made me think of https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/plotsummary/