I haven’t played it, and have no opinions about the quality of the game. That is beside the point. I was just responding to those who keep who insisting that VR will forever remain a niche product. When a VR game was just #1 on the Steam charts this week, it becomes harder to make that case.
Motion sickness is much less of a problem for current gen VR than it was in the past. Higher refresh rates and lower latency make a huge difference. Most people adjust to VR and are able to play it with no issues already, and the tech is continually improving. This isn’t a problem that requires brain implants to solve.
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Seriously? You think that the small Oculus team is enough people to handle all of meta's vision for AR/VR by themselves?
I'm sorry, I can't hear you. I have no ears.
That was Facebook, Meta has yet to release an AR/VR product. 😉
In-game revenue in games is insanely huge. E-sports generates more revenue than real sports. I don't know about amazingly useful, but most certainly profits galore to exploit.
Meta a competitor of Apple….??? Hahahahahahahahahahahhahaha
Some Meta employees are being aggressively pushed to apply for other jobs at the company and embrace the recent drive toward augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), while others are choosing to defect to competitors such as Apple, The New York Times reports.
Since Facebook rebranded as Meta and lauded the future of the "metaverse," the company is said to have undergone a sweeping transformation, creating thousands of new jobs to develop hardware and software for AR and VR. More than 24 percent of Meta's open job listings are for roles in AR or VR, but the company has ramped up its internal recruitment in recent months.
Meta is reportedly pushing its employees in products, engineering, and research to apply for new positions in the company's expanding AR and VR teams, suggesting that employees should move in order to succeed. Other workers have been elevated from their jobs in the company's social networking divisions to lead the same functions with an emphasis on AR and VR. Moreover, employees have purportedly been expected to adopt a positive attitude toward the metaverse and innovation in the AR and VR space, or leave the company.
Meta has also sought to poach talent from Apple and Microsoft amid the rush to bring a compelling, mainstream AR and VR experience to market. In an effort to dissuade staff from leaving, Apple has offered some of its engineers up to $180K in stock bonuses.
The result of this transformation has been severe internal disruption at Meta, according to current and former employees speaking to The New York Times. While some workers were excited about Meta's new direction, others have taken issue with the company's approach toward employees and questioned whether the company was sidelining existing problems.
One former Instagram employee resigned from his role after feeling that his work would no longer be of value to the company, while another said that they thought Meta was not best placed to create the metaverse and was looking for a job at a competitor as a result.
What Meta's pivot toward AR and VR means for Facebook and Instagram seemingly remains in flux, but the teams working on these two social media platforms are said to have shrunk over the past four months and are facing budget cuts. A spokesperson for Meta said that there have been no "significant" job cuts to existing teams because of the company's new direction.
Meta's vision for AR and VR is set to face fierce competition. Apple, Google, and Microsoft are all looking to launch mainstream AR and VR devices in the near future, while Samsung is said to have neglected the space due to an "obsession" with foldable smartphones. Apple's first mixed-reality headset is rumored to be facing development problems, which could postpone the device's launch until next year.
Article Link: Workplace Disruption Reported at Meta Amid AR and VR Push, Some Staff Defecting to Competitors Like Apple
The NFL just as ONE sport makes about $9.8 billion in revenue. Just doing a quick search for ”esports revenue” indicates $2 billion GLOBAL revenue. So, I guess it generates more revenue than SOME real sports, but you’d have to avoid comparing against the UEFA Champions League which also makes a billion and larger.
Since when did performance=working more hours than a standard with week? I’ve not worked more than 40 hours at my job in at least 5 years.
With 3.5 billion users and growing, you can hope but, don't hold your breath. People love to harsh on FB/Meta, right before and after they spend an hour a day there. Only Google has more visitors. They have dominated this space and they ain't going anywhere. FB has $60 plus Billion in cash reserves. We really think they can't manage current operations while expanding further in this direction? Good logic, good math. Like'em, hate'em, it matters not. They see the future regarding thes new technologies and they are correct. This is going to happen and they intend to expand their current leader status in the space. That is just smart.
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American investors are stupid, all you have to do is have a flashy video, some technical jargon, and a stupid product name, and you will rake in billions before having a product.
“Mainstream”. Ha ha...A new VR game, Zenith, was just the #1 game on Steam's charts. And the overwhelming majority of people playing VR on Steam are using Meta's Quest product. Segway never, ever had anything remotely like that kind of mainstream success. Whatever VR/AR might end up being, Segway is a very poor comparison.
VR MMO Zenith Is Currently Steam's Top Selling Game
Long-anticipated VR MMO, Zenith: The Last City, is currently the top selling game on Steam. The US charts for the PC store place Ramen VR’s new game at the very top of the list. To be clear, this isn’t a VR-specific category, it’s for every game onuploadvr.com
