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The Continued Unraveling of Mark Zuckerberg’s Malicious Metaverse
What is best in life? Being right about another man’s failures. Watching his allies abandon him. And hearing the lamentations of his shareholders. Call me the world’s happiest cynic, then, because when I predicted the utter and catastrophic failure of Facebook’s rebranding as “Meta” starting less than a year ago, I genuinely didn’t think it would all unravel as quickly and ignominiously as it has.
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Meta’s Dragging Qualcomm Into Its Metaverse Hell for the Foreseeable Future
The two companies agreed to a multi-year partnership that will see Meta headsets powered by custom Qualcomm chipsets.
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Meta head of virtual reality platform Horizon leaving company
Meta Platforms Inc's chief of its virtual reality social platform Horizon, the main gateway for accessing the metaverse that the company is pouring billions of dollars into building, is leaving for a new opportunity, he told Reuters on Friday. A spokesman for Facebook-owner Meta confirmed the departure of Vice President Vivek Sharma and said his team would report directly to Vishal Shah, vice president of Metaverse.
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The metaverse is as dead as Zuckerberg’s cartoon eyes
Last week, Meta showed yet another cringeworthy product of its $10.2 billion investment in the metaverse: a demonic VR porcelain doll of Mark Zuckerberg that looked worse than a Second Life avatar from 2003. Hastily released in response to yet another round of universal mockery from all over the internet, it was still only marginally more expressive, and slightly more alive, than a Ken doll.
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Facebook parent Meta lays off 60 workers ‘at random’ using algorithm: report
Facebook is the latest large tech company to begin mass layoffs, choosing 60 contractors reportedly at random using an algorithm. The unlucky contractors were employed by Meta via its Austin office of Accenture — despite the company having a nearly half-billion-dollar deal with Meta to provide workers in content moderation and business integrity.
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Mark Zuckerberg unveils new, boyish metaverse avatar after getting mocked for creepy, dead-eyed version
The Meta CEO posted his new, high-res avatar on Instagram on Friday after Monday's low-res iteration was widely mocked.
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Mark Zuckerberg spent $10B on the metaverse and all he got was this stupid selfie
I don't want to start this post by personally attacking Mark Zuckerberg's eyes, which have in years past been described as "two weird lil black marbles" and "vacant, black shark eyes." Who wouldn't look utterly bereft of a soul after trying to explain the internet to the United States Senate? I also don't need to suggest Mark Zuckerberg may in fact be a robot, since there's an entire meme community devoted to that joke. I am avoiding these easy, obvious dunks on ol' Zuck because his latest "metaverse" selfie looks so bad, he's already owned himself harder than I possibly could.
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Does Mark Zuckerberg Not Understand How Bad His Metaverse Looks?
Mark Zuckerberg has once again been roasted on Twitter, not over barbeque sauce or surfing this time. On Tuesday, he posted a screenshot from Horizon Worlds on Facebook celebrating the game’s release in France and Spain.
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Meta cutting election misinformation efforts as midterms loom
Facebook owner Meta is quietly curtailing some of the safeguards designed to thwart voting misinformation or foreign interference in U.S. elections as the November midterm vote approaches. It’s a sharp departure from the social media giant’s multibillion-dollar efforts to enhance the accuracy of posts about U.S. elections and regain trust from lawmakers and the public after their outrage over learning the company had exploited people’s data and allowed falsehoods to overrun its site during the 2016 campaign.
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Meta has Faced 29 Major Lawsuits in the Last 2 Years, Plaintiffs Include the U.S. Federal Government, IRS, DOJ and FTC – New York Economic Journal
Large companies face lawsuits all the time. It would be strange for a company as large as Facebook (now Meta), to go for a two year stretch without facing any kind of lawsuit.
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The Quest 2's price hike is a bad sign for the Metaverse
In an unprecedented move, Meta has announced that it’s hiking the price of its normally affordable Quest 2 headset by $100 starting on August 1. Although Meta claims that the price bump is meant to allow the company to invest more in VR in hopes of “moving the VR industry further,” I’m left skeptical about the plausibility of that outcome. The move will not only hurt VR fans’ wallets but potentially hurt Meta’s goals as it attempts to turn the Metaverse into a mainstream experience.
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The Oculus Quest 2 now costs more, because Meta
An Oculus Quest 2 price hike is on the way, as Meta has announced plans charge more for its popular VR headset. As you’d perhaps expect the social media giant is already receiving backlash over the move, as the increase could make virtual reality financially inaccessible for some players.
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Meta reports Q2 operating loss of $2.8B for its metaverse division
Meta's Q2 results showed us that Mark Zuckerberg's vision of the metaverse is still very expensive, with a $2.8B loss in VR division in Q2.
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Zuckerberg says Meta is in "very deep, philosophical competition" with Apple to build the metaverse
A fight over "what direction the internet should go in"
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A company called Meta is suing Meta, accusing the tech giant of stealing its name for its metaverse rebrand
VR company MetaX — which goes by Meta in its branding — says confusion caused by Facebook's metaverse rebrand has already damaged its business.
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The Metaverse Will Reshape Our Lives. Let's Make Sure It's for the Better
Matthew Ball writes that we need to be as aggressive about shaping the metaverse future as those investing to build it.
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Meta removes Facebook account mandate from Quest VR—but is that enough?
Credit where credit is due: The Meta Quest virtual reality platform, previously known as Oculus Quest, will soon remove its obnoxious Facebook account mandate. As announced on Thursday, starting in August, both new and existing Quest headset users will be able to use the system's default operating system and digital download store without tying their "real-name" social media accounts to the service.
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Meta bans staff from open discussion of Roe v. Wade decision and is deleting internal messages that mention abortion: report
Meta has warned employees not to discuss the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on its internal system and deleting messages that do so, The New York Times reported. Managers cited a policy that put "strong guardrails around social, political and sensitive conversations" in the workplace, according to company insiders, the newspaper reported.
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Mark Zuckerberg is more interested in the metaverse than election integrity, report says
Mark Zuckerberg's intense focus on the metaverse has replaced securing elections as the Meta CEO's top concern, four Meta employees with knowledge of the situation told The New York Times. Zuckerberg has been public with his desire to transform Meta — formerly known as Facebook — into a metaverse company, ploughing billions of dollars into developing metaverse technology.
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Meta Is Killing Off Consumer Versions of the Portal Video-Calling and Streaming Device
Facebook once called its Portal family of devices, first introduced in 2018, “the future of video calling” — and spent big on ad campaigns pushing the products. Now the social media giant, since renamed Meta Platforms, is switching gears: The company will no longer produce consumer versions of the Portal and instead will focus on business applications, Variety has confirmed.
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