Top news of the week: 02.05.2022.
Dustin Moskovitz
Mark Zuckerberg
Virtual reality
The Real World
Facebook
Metaverse
Trends & Debates
RT @tfadell: “In Q1 alone, Meta’s Metaverse/Reality Labs operated at a loss of $2.96 billion, and last year, Reality Labs lost over $10 billion.”
The iPhone didn’t even cost $3B to build, let alone $13B…
F&@k the Metaverse!
https://t.co/B0Ynld7tpd
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Meta says its metaverse biz lost another $3B… but the 2030s will be ‘exciting’
At least Facebook's daily active users are up, according to Meta's first quarter results.
really like what @snap is doing right now and will be paying closer attention. https://t.co/AeBokP6sWp
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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel thinks the metaverse is ‘ambiguous and hypothetical’
Snapchat is placing its ‘big bet’ on the real world
RT @tfadell: 🙌🙌💪💪 @evanspiegel
The word “metaverse” is never uttered in Snap’s offices.
“...because it’s pretty ambiguous & hypothetical. Ask a room of people & everyone’s definition is totally different.”
Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel dismisses Facebook’s metaverse
https://t.co/EfoRpWqmMj
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Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel dismisses Facebook’s metaverse as ‘hypothetical’
Founder says his company is committed to augmenting the real world rather than replacing it
Wrote something on today’s Meta earnings and what it signals https://t.co/Y7s27jWROv
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Mark Zuckerberg wants to spend big on the metaverse, but investors are skeptical
Zuckerberg has bigger problems than spending on the metaverse.
What an absolute delight to be interviewed by @siggraph, which hosts my favorite trade event of the year (and to be clear, that's not a dig!)
https://t.co/XW3skEkMCF
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The Many Lives of Matthew Ball
One of the most authoritative voices on big media business and the metaverse, Matthew Ball shares his story of how he got where he is today.
Bored Ape Yacht Club creator’s metaverse mint rocks the Ethereum blockchain https://t.co/ltRSp3iGai https://t.co/gRJYrLtvep
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Bored Ape Yacht Club creator’s metaverse mint rocks the Ethereum blockchain
Gas fees soared during the Otherside mint.
Meta is ultimately a media company reliant on advertising, and nothing more. So is its metaverse scheme just a distraction?
Opinion by @davidzmorris in "The Node" newsletter.
https://t.co/lE4FeBUYh1
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Mark Zuckerberg to Investors: Expect Nothing From the Metaverse
In setting a 10-year timeline for returns from Reality Labs, Zuck raised as many questions as he answered.
Crypto hasn't quite taken off for payments just yet. What can learn from other technology about taking an idea genuinely mainstream?
The futurist thinker @Dan_Jeffries1 writes for #PaymentsWeek, presented by @circlepay
https://t.co/w4JBYYaucX
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Fast, Fluid, Frictionless Payments Are the Future
But what does it take for a technology to really break through? This article is part of CoinDesk's Payments Week.