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>> “A good vision for the metaverse is not one that a specific company builds, but it has to have the sense of interoperability and portability”, Mr Zuckerberg
by Choc13 5y ago
>> “A good vision for the metaverse is not one that a specific company builds, but it has to have the sense of interoperability and portability”, Mr Zuckerberg said, adding that there should be protocols like the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) internet standards for defining how experiences will be built.
Except defined by Facebook, so not really anything like W3C.
- dingosity 5y agooh man. there have been at least three efforts i'm aware of to standardize the metaverse in the last 30 years. none of them really went anywhere. fb was invited to participate in the last one i paid attention to (VWRAP), but they politely declined.
- cratermoon 5y agoAnd now they'll take all the ideas from the previous efforts, pick the ones that will make them the most profit (revenue - development costs) and tada a new propriety, privately controlled ecosystem that slowly replaces whatever is out there. See, for example, Open Graph replacing Dublin Core.
- selfhoster11 5y agoHow is Open Graph replacing Dublin Core? I'm not familiar with the space.
- cratermoon 5y agoThey're both specifications for adding structured metadata to the web. https://w3techs.com/technologies/comparison/da-dublincore,da-opengraph https://w3techs.com/technologies/comparison/da-dublincore,da...
- cwkoss 5y agoAre there any facebook products that have "the sense of interoperability and portability"? Seems like most of their properties strive for the opposite...
- meiraleal 5y agoYep, but they have enough researchers to figure out that this will not work forever and web3.0 will eat them.
- chaostheory 5y agoTheir Quest headsets still work fine with Steam… for now
- cwkoss 5y agoI got a quest 1 for as a gift a couple years back. They frequently automatically installed updates that break mods. Now, my headset is currently bricked and I need to figure out how to factory reset or something to fix it. Maybe its just indifference, but given facebook's history it feels intentional.
- chaostheory 5y agoThe quest is a console. If you want to use mods without too many issues, you need to use a PC for VR.
- cwkoss 5y agoYep, my friend has the Index which I really like. Leaning that direction for my next VR system.
- chaostheory 5y agoYou can still use your Quest with a PC. You don’t need an Index for that.
- istorical 5y agoBoth Twitter and Facebook had much more open and developer friendly APIs in their early growth stages, which they slowly reduced as their reliance on 3rd parties diminished, as they in-housed features and killed off third party integrations, and in FB's case, after they got fucked by their permissive APIs and open standards in the Cambridge Analytica debacle.
- ethbr0 5y agoTop reason Facebook won't succeed here: they're too greedy. Say what you want about MS and Google, but they left a lot of money and opportunity on the table for others. Facebook... notsomuch. Which works fine when you start with a first mover platform. But doesn't work nearly as well when trying to grow a platform from nothing. Here's hoping the effort crashes into the ground.
- ComodoHacker 5y agoWhen the other option is being forcibly broken up as a monopoly, your greed would advise you to lose less rather than more.
- ethbr0 5y agoHyperscale tech was smart in the way they designed their business to wrap around existing anti-trust law (via creating captive markets inside of larger markets and spanning multiple market categories). We'll see if they're smart enough to outflank Antitrust 2.0, or if they make the same mistakes as Big Railroad / Oil -- assuming they're more powerful than government and/or believing their own PR about how they're not a monopoly.