New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is Facebook Done?
Ask HN: Is Facebook Done?
7 by lifeplusplus | 7 comments on Hacker News.
They have lot of products with even more potential: marketplace, groups, dating(?), news, pages, messenger. But it feels like fb is abandoning all of it and going full force to metaverse. It feels like fb wants to be either the biggest or nothing. But I've serious doubts about metaverse, my eyes get so exhausted from general texting, I can't even dream of putting it on for hours at end. At most I can see myself using VR as another monitor or a controller. Something I use for certain entertainment purposes. Even if it was 5x better in tech - resolution, latency, size, etc. I just don't see myself wearing anything, i can't stand contacts so i wear glasses and i hate glasses too so I take them off when I don't need them. Then there is chicken-egg problem: no content cuz no users cuz no content... either fb gives millions of ppl very advanced devices for almost free OR spend more than what netflix have on creating content. Also isn't like 95% of the engineers at facebook all mainly web developers or related. And metaverse is basically game development.. something facebook has no experience in. If someone could make a good game it'd be EPIC (the fortnite creators). Maybe they should acquire or partner up with epic to have some hope. So back to question: since fb seems to be abandoning everything and metaverse is likely to go no where, is fb done for?
7 by lifeplusplus | 7 comments on Hacker News.
They have lot of products with even more potential: marketplace, groups, dating(?), news, pages, messenger. But it feels like fb is abandoning all of it and going full force to metaverse. It feels like fb wants to be either the biggest or nothing. But I've serious doubts about metaverse, my eyes get so exhausted from general texting, I can't even dream of putting it on for hours at end. At most I can see myself using VR as another monitor or a controller. Something I use for certain entertainment purposes. Even if it was 5x better in tech - resolution, latency, size, etc. I just don't see myself wearing anything, i can't stand contacts so i wear glasses and i hate glasses too so I take them off when I don't need them. Then there is chicken-egg problem: no content cuz no users cuz no content... either fb gives millions of ppl very advanced devices for almost free OR spend more than what netflix have on creating content. Also isn't like 95% of the engineers at facebook all mainly web developers or related. And metaverse is basically game development.. something facebook has no experience in. If someone could make a good game it'd be EPIC (the fortnite creators). Maybe they should acquire or partner up with epic to have some hope. So back to question: since fb seems to be abandoning everything and metaverse is likely to go no where, is fb done for?
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