B-b-b-but they have legs!
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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What a comical waste of $80 Billion. Coulda bought two Twitters with that money instead and still come out on top.
Coulda fed an entire country in the real world
$80bn for VR Miis that didn't have legs until last year
$80bn for "We have VRChat at home"
I cannot fathom how $80billion was spent without anyone skimming off the top...and the middle....and the bottom.
I’m entirely convinced the whole thing was invented to scam Meta. So congrats to all the people who got paid along the way!
I wonder if John Carmack is among them? I remember him complaining that internal politicking made any kind of progress like wading in mud
He is the forefront expert in WADing
I’m entirely convinced the whole thing was invented to scam Meta.
Yes, it was suckerberg.
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Meanwhile, OpenAI claims their losses will get near $80 billion before they start turning a profit. You've got to spend money to make money. Or to fail spectacularly. However the saying goes.
Instead they bought Moltbook, the reddit for ai bots (only ai bots can post)
Actually anyone can post using the API, and many people did. Lots of the heavily publicized posts were written by humans
wat
zuckerbot needed friends just like him, so he bought them
The best comment on this I've seen...
It turns out, to the horror of techbros like Zuck, that the actual core demographics for VR worlds are not edgy cyberpunk antiheroes whose coolness could rub off on them, but femboy otaku who want to go drinking with friends while dressed as fabulous anime girls without even having leave their home and trans furries who want to party at visually spectacular virtual raves then pirate movies and have virtual cuddle piles.
Which... isn't very monetizable for normies.
...yet. 😈
God dam I miss second life.
Tbh I always thought it was unreleased and still being developed. My shock when I found out it was available and no one used it.
Came off like VRChat for idiots.
They tried REALLY hard to get us to use it for meetings when I worked there, but nobody wanted to give up their legs ¯\(ツ)/¯
I hope work didn’t buy headsets for everyone just for that
Nah, they just told us to use our own if we had them. And of course, we couldn't get a discount on them or anything, either.
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Reading the article, Horizon Worlds is not shutting down, just the VR access. Apparently they’ve moved it to apps you access on iPhone and Android. I see the appeal even less; that seems like Second Life mobile.
I loaded up my vr headset the other day for the first time in.... A year? Maybe more.
And I was surprised to find my own custom decorated room was gone and instead I had a balcony to that Horizon place.
I could see little people running and jumping around and some portals or doorways and other stuff.
Is that what they are shutting down?
So what happens to VR headsets' "home screen"?
Does it go back to the way it was?
It’s probably been even longer since I used mine, which is a shame because it is fun; I just don’t have a good space for the more active games right now, or even Walkabout Mini Golf
That is what they are shutting down. It was just a way to try to advertise stuff.
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'Meta will shut down'
Hurray! oh? There's more to the title? Damn.
I can't wait for the day that I'm forced to switch from a discontinued Meta to a homebrewed OS that supports my library.
I tried Horizons once. Confused TF out of me what its purpose was other than to have random people screaming into mics and yelling n**** at you all the time.
It was not a fun experience and I never saw the point. I play VR games for VR experiences with actual fun in them.
Confused TF out of me what its purpose was other than to have random people screaming into mics and yelling n**** at you all the time.
So VR Discord?
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Oh my God it's finally fucking over. I can use a Quest headset again without being inaudatited with ads essentially from Horizon Worlds. I can use the headset again without having to constantly hack it.
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The company shared that it would go "all-in" on the mobile version of the platform in February.
TIL there's a non-VR version of Horizon. wasn't the whole point that it was VR? what's even left if you take out the VR, just voice chat?
The monetization?
20? Seems overly generous
I wanted them to feel better about themselves
Was this the thing with legless avatars from the uncanny valley? No idea how they wasted so much money - they'd have done better to employ a good gaming studio to make something fun that looked good. Could have saved billions there.
This is good news! I quite like the Quest 3 hardware, but I hated having Horizon rammed down my throat through the UI. I guess that’s because they were desperate to drive engagement.
Does this mean I don't have to see the hideous Meta Horizon avatar of myself I never asked for anymore? They should let me use my VRChat one in the home environment instead.
Come on now, Zuckerberg doesn’t have 20 accounts, 12 at the most
I don't know why you'd think that, Human McHuman, YesImHuman, NotaLizard, NotaRobot, Normal Man, CEOsRPeople, MeritocracyWins are all owned by zuckerbot
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Ironically, this will end up as a upgrade to Meta Quest owners, as they no longer will have that bullshit shoved all over the "Home" ambient.
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