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When Facebook-Meta yesterday expanded its metaverse with cartoon versions of France's Eiffel tower and Spain's Basílica de la Sagrada Família, people pounced. Here I collected some of the best tweets:
@ordinarytings: Mark Zuckerberg launches Horizon Worlds in France and Spain with an eye-gougingly ugly VR selfie. Meta's metaverse ploy is surely dying in the dark.
Steve Kovach (@stevekovach): This literally cost $10 billion.
Michael Gartenberg (@gartenberg): There's a reason why people call Zuckerberg a two dimensional character.
Robert Evans (@iwriteok): Tragic that every airline and tourist economy in the world is about to collapse now that Facebook has utterly eliminated the need to travel.
Emerson T. Brooking (@etbrooking): 5000 newspapers died for this.
Cheryl Platz (@funnygodmother): I'm not going to dunk on the visuals, but the discourse raises a point I think gets missed a lot. What human need is Meta hoping their platform improves upon? It's obviously not “actual reality.” Second Life can be whimsical and lets people transcend. This isn't aspirational.
@dosmeow: Nothing will ever be the same.
Takes me back to walking the Vegas strip, outside Caesars, and an older couple in front of me pointed at the 'Eiffel Tower' and said unironically 'Everything is here, you don't need to travel'...
Posted by: RobiNZ | Aug 19, 2022 at 02:48 PM