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MY PRODIGAL BRAINCHILD

nealstephenson.substack.com12 min read

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Meta has decided to shut down its Metaverse project, which the company reportedly spent $80 billion on. The company's vision of people wearing devices on their faces all the time is unlikely to be realized. People care too much about what they look like, and there is too much social stigma against being recorded without permission. There are already hundreds of millions of people in metaverses that don't require a headset to access.