“Metaverse” is bullshit

“Metaverse” or whatever the fuck Zuck is calling it is dumb vaporware and I can’t believe technical people are getting suckered in by it. 1) It will never be technically feasible to build a version of the “metaverse” which people actually want to use. VR tech is not the limitation. 2) A federated, decentralized metaverse is not what Facebook will build or intends to build. Interoperability can never exist in a metaverse controlled by Facebook because it would threaten their ability to make money off of it. 3) Nobody will want to use the sanitized, sterilized, kid-friendly thing Facebook is building. Facebook’s entire play is to try and replace your other devices with a VR headset, but nobody will ever do that if it doesn’t include adult content, which it won’t. 4) The Facebook presentation was all pre-rendered made up fairytale horse shit that has no relation to anything that exists today or what Facebook will build. It’s a bunch of buzzwords and explains nothing about what the product is supposed to be, how it will actually work or how it is an improvement over something like VRChat. 5) Zuckerberg is either a grifter or a dumbass for fundamentally misunderstanding the point of Snow Crash. 6) This product announcement and rebrand is obviously a PR stunt to distract from the fact that the perception of Facebook’s brand has never been worse. Their other products have stalled. Pure desperation move. 7) This is not a criticism of VR/AR which certainly have their respective uses/markets. VR is not the important thing about the metaverse as it is commonly understood. You have to be a moron to buy into this nonsense and I will relish the day when Facebook has to pivot away from metaverse bullshit. All they’re going to build is a VR online game where you can have meetings and then say, “look we built the Metaverse”. If you work at Facebook you should be fucking embarrassed.