Facebook’s Meta mission laid out in a 2018 paper written by an Oculus executive

I think I'm going to take the anti-HN approach here and say this will succeed.

Video games are really popular, but they are not approachable for many people.

Digital social is really popular, but the form factor (scrolling feeds) is getting old.

Put these together and there's an opportunity for a totally new approach, throw in a multibillion dollar company throwing its weight behind it, it seems almost like a guarantee it will be awesome.

Oh it's going to succeed, alright, it's going to look just like that version of the Oasis that IoI demoed in the recent Ready Player One movie.

And then come the Metaverse Loyalty Centers.

those silicon valley gazillionaires have really gone bananas. I guess that's one way of getting rid of them, throw some much money at them that their synapses start firing uncontrollably

They do understand the Oculus was a stupid product that sucked in terms of quality right?

Have you tried the Quest 2? It is surprisingly good. The user experience is almost Apple like. Tremendous attention to detail and astonishingly good tracking.

Anything but poor quality.