Business Meta, Microsoft, Epic Games and others join forces to develop metaverse standards

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Engadget (Archive) - June 22, 2022
by, M. Moon

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A group of companies, including some of the biggest names in tech and the internet, have banded together to develop interoperability standards needed to achieve an open metaverse. The organization is called Metaverse Standards Forum, and its founding members include Meta, Microsoft, Huawei, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Epic Games, Unity and Adobe. As Reuters notes, one company that's conspicuously missing from the list is Apple. Multiple reports have come come out these past few years that Apple is releasing its own virtual or augmented reality headset, and it's expected to become a major player in the metaverse when the device becomes available.

Yet another big name that's missing from the list is Google, which is also reportedly working on an AR headset codenamed Project Iris. Niantic, the developer of Pokémon Go, and Roblox aren't in the list of members, as well. That said, membership is free and open to any organization, so more companies could join later on. As with any standard, one for the metaverse would only be considered a success if companies, especially the biggest players in the industry, adopt them. "Multiple industry leaders have stated that the potential of the metaverse will be best realized if it is built on a foundation of open standards," the forum wrote in its press release.

The group also said that it will focus on "pragmatic, action-based projects." Those include conducting hackathons and working on open-source tools designed to accelerate the testing and adoption of metaverse standards. And while companies can join anytime, members are expected to start forum meetings this July.
 
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Sees Huawei realizes its just another way to allow the CCP to spy
 
That settles it, all of my future GPUs will be AMD.

Homogenizing games and social media like this is going to suck all creativity out of them. So many devs use Unity that I fear for the future of those particular titles.
 
How will I be able to spawn a million penises in a given area in the Metaverse? This has been an important part of augmented reality for almost 20 years now.
 
I don't think the metaverse is gonna be as popular as they think it will be. I don't know anyone who is interested in it. Even my friend who plays vrchat every second he can thinks the metaverse is a retarded idea.
 
Dr. Henry Armitage said:
I don't think the metaverse is gonna be as popular as they think it will be. I don't know anyone who is interested in it. Even my friend who plays vrchat every second he can thinks the metaverse is a retarded idea.
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Oldfags reading this: What other historical instances have you seen of companies tripping over themselves to develop a useless speculative product that literally no-one wants.
I know there's that stupid rush to replace passwords with phone apps and eventually microchips in your palm and forehead but I want some funny ones.
 
Coolio55 said:
Oldfags reading this: What other historical instances have you seen of companies tripping over themselves to develop a useless speculative product that literally no-one wants.
I know there's that stupid rush to replace passwords with phone apps and eventually microchips in your palm and forehead but I want some funny ones.
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off the top of my head there was that social media platform google poured tons of resources into because they thought it would kill Facebook. Google glass was another. The segway, the zune, qwickster. and probably many many more.
 
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Meta, Microsoft, Huawei, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Epic Games, Unity and Adobe
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with the exception of Unity and Qualcomm, that's an impressively uniform list of aggressively proprietary technology companies that choose hegemony over usability every single time. add Google and Apple in there and it'd sound like the kind of nightmare that Richard Stallman wakes up screaming from during his worst nights
 
What seems to elude the people pushing the hype for metaverse is that it doesn't really have a niche it would fill. For example social media, arguably THE thing that brought normal consumers to internet at large wouldn't have been possible without smart phones, and if it wouldn't be so fucking easy to take the phone from your pocket and go online. If no-one had invented smart phones, Facebook wouldn't be anything. Google wouldn't be anything.

Unless they get the tech to a level where you can just take your phone, push a button and ZING! you're in the VR, the VR will not become the next big thing these people are gunning for. If it needs expensive and inconvenient hardware, it will not fly with normal people, no matter the age-group, because normal people aren't interested that much in tech.

Hell, not even total nerds are that interested in VR tech. My social circle consists mostly of educated, well-off young adult males, of whom almost all are some kind of gaming hobbyists, and whom have no qualms in spending huge stacks of cash for their entertainment. All of them have tried the VR, and all think it's really cool, but only one of them owns a VR gear, simply because even with all the cool experiences you can have in VR, the tech is just too clumsy and too expensive for what it offers currently. So, if even people who are in the niche audience, who have the financial means to hop in to the VR train and who generally think that the product is okayish even now aren't in the end ready to fork out the cash, how on Earth are these companies going to sell the idea to the audience that isn't even theoretically interested in it?
 
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I bought a month of HBO just to watch Babylon 5 (cause I didn't have the patience for it in the 90s) and every ad that isn't for Vanguard is reminding me that Fuckerberg is dumping a supposed 16 billion USD into "Safety, security and AI" to make Meta "safe." How is this an ad? What are these fucking lizard people smoking? "Come to our platform and get censored! We outspent the GDP of some small countries to censor you, you'll love it!"

Are the niggercattle really so blind, so dumb, so content to chew their cud endlessly? Did we not learn from the Bush era that those who trade liberty for safety will have neither? Apparently not because we are going to repeat the same mistakes again but this time we can bring down capitalism, democracy and The West and usher in a new Weimar era for America over mean tweets! ... but more and more I guess that's the goal.
 
VR Chat is probably the closest thing to the metaverse to have traction, it's basically VR Roblox, it has it's niche, Roblox itself has a massive and incredibly profitable niche as well, just in 2d.

Problem with the Meta attempt is that even from a high level, it doesn't look competitive at all, It's visually dated, everyone looks like a legless Mii avatar, there's a dystopian level of monetization, everyone has to socially distance because Twitterites/Journalists were virtually touched, things will only get worse as Meta bows to more perpetual victims. It started off so bland, corporate, sterile and uninteresting, and only went downhill from there.
 
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