submitted 1 year ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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That's the joke. You can laugh now.

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[-] SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net 8 points 1 year ago

https://fortune.com/2022/04/01/citi-metaverse-economy-13-trillion-2030/

I own a rift. Like many, mine is sitting in a box in my garage. If any of these people calling from multi trillion dollar valuations of the metaverse had ever actually bothered clamping one of these VR headsets to their head, they would have immediately realized how stupid they sounded.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

NFTS will also play a key role, it says, enabling a form of sovereign ownership of digital items for users.

Boy, that aged like a fine rotten fish

[-] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

SecondLife still exists, it's economy works fine, and it demonstrates very well that user-generated 3D worlds are awful for graphics framerate optimisation, which happens to be absolutely vital in VR headsets.

[-] humanreader@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

MBA courses must include an obligatory session of secondlife's peniscopter so no one ever bothers coming up with another iteration of this clusterfuck ever again