[alerter]

Completely agree. I'm frustrated that Oculus and VR tech in general has been lumped in, via the "metaverse", with a bunch of less useful and less interesting crypto/NFT stuff. All I wanted was some cool niche flight and mech sims, maybe some interesting AR projects beyond what Niantic could offer. Instead, we got a bunch of ugly tech demos, outright scams, and virtual meeting rooms that nobody uses.

Being able to buy drugs online was cool, but I'm not sure it was worth the billions of dollars invested and vast amounts of carbon emitted.

[JansjoFromIkea]

Yeah, Facebook's Metaverse pivot made VR pretty toxic right at the point where they were getting a significant level of adoption amongst the public.

They needed to focus on making a few more games with the mass appeal of Beat Saber and making entry level machines a bit cheaper again so there was enough users to make the social aspect actually have some value.