Why brands are investing millions in the metaverse - BBC News

[@matthewv4170]

You do realise meta has lost 80% of its value this year

[@duomaxwell1398]

Yes lol, BBC should have reported this a year ago.

[@whatsgoinon5516]

Stop reading the news . Youre looking at the future of business . This is like finding a new planet

[@NM12685]

The metaverse will work

[@ToxicJelly9]

@@NM12685 I hope not

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

Elon Takes Out the Trash.

[@SumOldGitt]

Billions of dollars invested and the best they can come up with is a naff looking experience from the early 90s. Incredibly poor graphics, lag and abysmal framerates is not the way to get people on board.

[@error5202]

Lol imagine how bad the lag will be with billions of assets and players running around. It’s a flaming dumpster

[@onsokumaru4663]

Total waste of time and money

[@indetermite]

Absolute waste of money.

[@ThatDogBarkz]

Im really happy i no longer use social media. This is BS.

[@Kraken54321]

Said the person commenting on social media! 🙄🤦😂

[@Storm_409]

@@Kraken54321 A lot of people don't regard KZbin as Social Media and I can see where they're coming from. It's nothing like other platforms. I actually prefer KZbin to standard television.

[@onsokumaru4663]

@@Kraken54321 Is Netflix social media? Is your television social media?

[@ThatDogBarkz]

@@Kraken54321 KZbin, Netflix, Amazon Prime = Internet TV/Streaming Platform. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snap = Social Media. I assume NUANCE is not your strong suit 🙄💩🤡

[@diazcastro7331]

U missing out

[@Hwrackham]

Tell me you take checks from Facebook, without directly telling us.

[@ollllj]

this is such a bad commercial for crypto. its not even funny. its almost enough to unsubscribe.

[@Hwrackham]

@@ollllj 100% I do love how blatant News media, govt and big tech are with their money and interest. Such trash.

[@arladeveze84]

@@ollllj indeed

[@amgolemn7690]

Spending money on cool looking clothes, only to realize that you are actually not wearing it in real life.

[@bestdisco1979]

It doesn’t make any sense,,what a load of nonsense.

[@evgeniam685]

@@bestdisco1979 it makes sense for those who created it and want people to be sucked into it. It's just like credits and interests was created. It's all about control. This time not just physical control, but mind control. They want us to be completely disattached from real world

[@lioninguccisuit]

Have you heard of SL

[@lioninguccisuit]

What about being less poor with a trash opinion, maybe dress good in real life, and buy cosmetics in game too? Let everyone do what they want to do with their time and money. Just becasue you would buy skins in game then see you're too broke to buy clothes irl, doesn't mean everyone is as poor as you or mentali damanged.

[@Brodragon2225]

@@evgeniam685 i think fortnite is doing good and its focus is also good.metaverse will mostly for kids and industrial metaverse will need different collection

[@башарал]

This is either one of the most expensive dillusons in a long time or it's a new stage of modern dystopia

[@Solar.Geoengineering.Advocate]

seems like its the former anyway.

[@krunkle5136]

Good example that money and brains don't always coincide. Isn't Second Life still running?

[@ollllj]

sl is fine, its in decline like every mmo-like ever in existence. this is mostly because it is still only 2-threads and pre-2011-shaders, making it a very outdated engine that has grown too big to be upgraded to anything that utilizes modern gpus with tensor-cores for AI for noise-filtering for raytracing.

[@idontwanttopickone]

@@ollllj so it's dead then and the only people still playing on it are people who are too invested. I just looked it up and apparently, it only has about 200,000 avg daily players. That's pretty tiny and it was from someone who was trying to claim how great SL still was. CS:GO has 800,000 players right now, whereas SL has 33,500. The 25 most played games on Steam right now have more players on them than SL. Most of those games see much larger numbers over the course of a day.

[@deadsp3ctre]

@@idontwanttopickone u think 200k players is small ?

[@mistervo8185]

Some people just have too much money... At the same time they don't have enough money to pay their taxes

[@DeRussellMasina]

Or fix the homelessness situation

[@scottblakewhitford5556]

It will be the biggest failure of all times, Facebook will be torn apart by their investors.

[@hunterkudo9832]

I'm not sure about the metaverse idea, I can think of some applications for maybe, storing information and exploring perhaps other planets, or some virtual worlds. Not much more. But Meta's AI department, those guys are making some groundbreaking progress.

[@dotexe55games31]

Three seconds later....why brands lost millions in the metaverse :-/

[@viniciobb]

The world is getting too ugly... Full of poverty... Let's tackle this problem? Nahhh .... Let's live in a video game

[@onsokumaru4663]

A crappy looking video game mind you.

[@thebacheafghan]

I would rather live in a video game than being a farmer .

[@thebacheafghan]

And how dare u call metaverse a video game. It's not a video game u boomer. It's reality.

[@Domkica]

@@thebacheafghan reality of what?

[@thebacheafghan]

@@Domkica reality of future.

[@viniciobb]

Let's build bridges or orphanages... Nahh I'm going to expend billions on land that doesn't exist.

[@amgolemn7690]

Can't wait until someone finds a duplication glitch and breaks the metaverse.

[@onsokumaru4663]

Or hack people's funds

[@olising8843]

Why are you trying to promote this still it’s literally dead already.

[@amgolemn7690]

I have played Fifa from a very long time, but I am able to distinguish between a video game and a real football match

[@susancorgi]

Well those big brands made a big mistake.

[@shadowzach00]

Agree wasting millions on pixle stuff

[@migsvensurfing6310]

Many years ago the exact same idea emerged. It was named second life and had a currency called Linden dollar. It was hyped in the media but failed anyway after some time. It was simply to boring. Metaverse may have better graphics but f.ex. Pacman is still Pacman even in 3D and will never take off. Probably this goes the same way.

[@JogBird]

but it doesnt even have better graphics

[@hexusmexus6971]

@@JogBird people that miss the beginning don’t make it to the end think about it

[@SF-eo6xf]

2 life is still going and has really good graphics now

[@claudiaauditoredafirenze432]

as an active sl player, i dont know what are you talking about. SL is alive and thrives, and i wont even go into comparing graphics lol. SL is out of meta`s league. Its painful to watch this video actually. I wouldnt even install this crap or buy any clothing in it while everyone i know who plays sl absolutely love shopping and buying lindens

[@andrewbartlett9282]

This feels very much like a PR piece. With loads of negative press on the metaverse in the wider press, timing seems more than coincidental. Disappointing BBC

[@lifeistooshorttospendworrying]

This reeks of Facebook paying the BBC for promotion.

[@allosaurusfragilis7782]

If we lived deep underground after nuclear or climate devastation, I could see why people might want to do this. Or possibly someone totally paralysed could get something from it. Why any fit person would not want to enjoy their short time in the real world, with all its beauty, is beyond me and quite sad.

[@MacBamboocha]

And both isn't possible, because...? I mean, you can work your ass off a whole day, take a beer with coworker right after, going out or following your hobbies in the weekend and still chat/play with friends a few times a week in VR chat. Most people are not leaving reality behind just because AR and VR exists. But don't worry, if companies keep on betting on crypto over creating quality experiences it won't succeed anyway. Not until we reach yet another technological breakthrough at least.

[@JohnStockton7459]

What happens when VR becomes better than the real world? Now you understand why people will use VR everyday, just like a mobile phone. Using your logic, people would be in the real world instead of spending all their time on there phone, which most people do today with the average screen time being 6+ hours/day.

[@jeonlyxoxo]

This is mainly for people who don’t actually have an excellent real-life lifestyle. People who can’t afford holidays, travel and others luxuries are limited to their 9 to 5 jobs etc., which is the majority of the population. People want a good life, even if it means being trapped in a VR headset on their heads. People who lead a remarkable life have no time for this S. apart from investing in it. To get them richer to carry on living the real good life. Sad but true.

[@FutureDictator69]

A fool and his money are easily parted.

[@steampowered6883]

Madness. It's just a crappy MMO.

[@andrewedgar3935]

If clothing in the real world is susceptible to knock offs, then how can these digital clothes be any different. Surely there will be platforms on the dark web where you can get these “designer clothes” for cheaper or free

[@RhizometricReality]

Corpos have colonized the world, colonized our minds and now must colonize digital spaces and potentials. Such a terrible future made from the things we love.

[@idontwanttopickone]

Doesn't need to be on the dark web. Once you download something you can easily copy it and share it. The problem these designers and investors can't see is no one will come to their gallery or space, or buy their clothing if it's on an obscure piece of software that no one uses. There has to be a reason to go there. People spend money on in-game items in games they enjoy playing. People spent money on Second Life because it was unique, new and interesting to a generation that had never experienced something like that before. Until it wasn't interesting anymore. Now there are loads of knock-off Second Life clones and there are computer games that do the same kind of things a lot better.

[@underarmbowlingincidentof1981]

Copy Paste.

[@geraldillo]

A digital version of "the Emperor's new clothes".

[@james9836]

"the younger generation doesn't understand real life from digital" 7:07 I played all games all my life however I have evolved to a higher level and recognize that the TV is a screen that projects the game from the console to the player which isn't real but just a pastime kind of like football or baseball.😂

[@lexruptor]

Everyone has, except apparently old people who just wanna get their digs in over stupid bs like that.

[@Chrisallengallery]

5 year olds can already understand that concept.

[@krunkle5136]

I think they're meaning moreso social media, which doesn't really reflect how people IRL behave (where you can't get banned or ghosted).

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[@underarmbowlingincidentof1981]

Its true. When I gun people down in Call of Duty it feels just like doing it in real life.

[@berwickperu7683]

Times have changed and now stock market is all about pump and dump leaving retailers as bag holders. Bag holders turned to long term investors will still bag hold and stock might go to zero. There is too much news, too many analysts, too many factors, too many firms, insiders influencing the stock price. Retailer money is being sucked. I made $172k combined net last year and paid no Federal taxes.

[@hollandhoff975]

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[@richardyepesdiego5702]

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[@haddenford6252]

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[@mathewwatt1317]

@@richardyepesdiego5702 How were you able to achieve such huge sums, Many stocks has been falling down way too fast for the average retail investors to ever wanted to go back to the market. It is a casino.

[@VisagesSausages]

Probably not the best business practice to call your only current customers “freaky nerds” 😅 at 8:45

[@miketran4289]

Metaverse is going to be bigger than 3D TV!!! Get in while you can. Said no one.

[@TomNook.]

Fact: 99% of NFTs have lost 99% of their value since their peak

[@joshuacs]

It’s called a bear market

[@Solar.Geoengineering.Advocate]

oh woOoOoOw what an absolute shocker

[@LICKSTERxx]

Do t know why apparently it only has 30 active users

[@Jordan_Warrington]

People say the young are stupid but then the older generation does shit like this.

[@cynb3502]

Because it appeals to the young. 😂 The older generation prefers real life. Go to the store, or go to the website, order something and have it shipped to your home. Return it to store if it doesn't work. What exactly is the benefit of adding a VR access point to this?

[@Jordan_Warrington]

@@cynb3502 what are you talking about, your described convenience not preferring online. Also this isn't a young Vs old thing, this is an everyone thing. my grandparents use home delivery, Amazon, Netflix and social media. My generation has just grown up with it so can use it better, than the generation that had to learn it.

[@Kuwandi]

The humans are simply the funnest species- all you have to do is brainwash them with REPETITIVE CRAPP and all of the sudden it’s real to them Lol

[@Eusantdac]

Brands may be investing millions but my Oculus sit on the floor, in the corner here collecting dust. It was cool for about a month then, it got tiresome because unlike playing other video-games, where I can do multiple things at once, this thing forces You to be fully dedicated to it and that's not practical, or enjoyable for longer than like fifteen, twenty minutes at a time. So, they can invest millions but I as a customer fully divested from it.

[@TheBHAitken]

Starting to sound very familiar, like when Second Life was a big thing. Advertising execs see tech demos and say "We have to invest" but having no idea which one will finally be adopted, invests in them all. The next Ad exec will see all the spending, call virtual advertising a waste of time and remove their ads. Then, a few years later, the next Ad exec will tout the benefits of virtual ad space again. And so the cycle continues of people trying to find the next "big thing".

[@BiancaRoughFin]

Second Life's boom was between 2007~2009, Linden Labs partnered with companies from all over the world to make the Linden Dolar (L$) and other resources more accessible to a greater audience, problem is these "Partners" were advertising Second Life as a "Game" with no rules or age restrictions, consequently the program got filled with people stealing/cloning intellectual property, underages wondering into inappropriate places, other forms of theft and illegalities. After that the company took measures to greatly restrict and reduce these issues. It still is the best Metaverse out there.

[@lexruptor]

Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, knows digital from real. This is just as bad as everyone calling Millenials "Gen Z" all the time. Clearly you don't know, but we do.

[@nbarrett100]

'millions' isn't acutally that much of an investment these days. This is like renting a stall at Disneyland. tbh, Disneyland would probably be a better investment because Disney has its own IP, and even if the metaverse is good, somebody else will build a better one in a decade or so

[@hardikb15]

i think we can all agree Metaverse would have been a success if it wasn't made by zucc

[@justinchase6666]

I mean pokestar have a free game with better social and gameplay

[@lexruptor]

Not really, no. If it wasn't made by him, it would be a Sims game but mmo, still garbage, always garbage.

[@ToxicJelly9]

It's called vr chat, it already exists

[@Colddirector]

Nah I think it's a vague and off-putting concept to most right now, but Meta's reputation definitely does them no favours.

[@hardikb15]

@@ToxicJelly9 tbh VRchat is worse considering considering it is riddled with furries.. trust me i have been there... but yeah it does have better graphics than meta

[@hanselmansell7555]

Also thousands of people March in London against austerity today and the BBC say nothing 😡

[@RandomUserName022]

I believe metaverse will blow up someday but not with the graphics it has now

[@sockhal4595]

They are investing because companies want people to see their advertising and buy their products. That’s all, you don’t need to stay in front of the video.

[@alexcisneros2980]

"sponsored by meta"

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[@YinLawn]

If this news was done in virtual world, and you are interviewing their avatars instead of them in real life, then I think we may have something.

[@pimbeijk2256]

Yes

[@abdastgir4918]

The metaverse is going to fail miserably . It has already lost billions and will continue doing so .Zuckerberg is not a visionary , he was just the right person at the right time at the time of the birth of Facebook. How the mighty have fallen 🤣

[@cynb3502]

Because they have clearly learned nothing from FB, Twitter, et al?

[@trevorharildstad]

No thanks. 🤡

[@straightdrive6192]

invent something and then find a reason to use it, typical.

[@adamraduso4502]

Metaverse is the stupidest idea that I ever heard ...along with nft. They think that I will change real word for some 3D Wii game ..and spend money for digital clothes.. yeah ..sure ..

[@cidfin-group3408]

I shall be waiting for the Chinese version of metaverse called MULTIVERSE. Where everything is cheap and free

[@mirzapramudya1580]

The Metaverse are probably made by a bunch of people who've never interacted with the new generation and then says "we know what's best for you"

[@bravosierra2447]

It’s a funny ol’ internet, I’ve seen tons of stories on fb loosing billions betting on the metaverse end now it’s stories of how brands are investing heavily in to it. The agenda is set.

[@coolcat6103]

You pay a licence fee for this rubbish? Hello the world is falling apart

[@BiancaRoughFin]

Meanwile , me a Second Life user for 16+ Years laughing at all the other Metaverse concepts and asking my self why they mention SL in the video as if it was some sort of failure when its still thriving and still the most complete metaverse out there.

[@mollyhunt4425]

like hello where was the VRCHAT mention?!! THE populated social VR space?!?

[@yukitaylor00]

Second Life?

[@r.d.vaughan4541]

When you put your chips down on a narcissist "vision" you'll eventually realize you've thrown away your money. Meta's cash cow will fall to some other shiny bobble and FaceBook will be the next MySpace in Wikipedia.

[@DeathTempler]

These people are truly delusional. Facebook's metaverse is nothing new. Second Life? Hell, Gaia Online and Neopets are far better than Facebook and crypto worlds. Younger generations playing video games can't tell real from virtual? I've been gaming all my life and have spent thousands of hours in VR since 2013. I don't take my headset off and think, "I hope I don't get hyperdicted by a Thargoid on my way to the bathroom." Hate to break it to you, but unless you're giving commercial rights to buyers, your digital clothes and art aren't worth $100-$1k. If you're going to bank everything you have on a social app with terrible ethics, just play Destiny. At least you'll look good. Most these digital clothes look like white drops.

[@viniciobb]

We're gonna have no planet in a hundred years... Nahh... My avatar doesn't need air

[@Strafingx44]

The metaverse is here to keep the sheeps poor and indoors!

[@HeyMJ.]

Brands also spent millions on the Second Life platform. 🎒

[@Timofey436-69]

Everybody keep buying land in the Metaverse, keep spending thousands and millions of dollars in the fake world, so I can buy up all the real land you didn’t buy in irl. Thank you 😘

[@Andrew-ob5ij]

How much did Zuckerberg pay for this ad 😂

[@theshadedshadow5993]

If all power went out globally, so many wouldn't survive.

[@dimamatat5548]

There are too many people in the world anyway.

[@Kuwandi]

Clearly this is a PAID FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS STUNT LOL

[@hellokittykitty737]

When electricity is gone..all of these delusion also gone!😂

[@juice6521]

I think it was too soon, I think this concept needed another 10 years in the oven. Don't worry, the dystopia future is coming, just not quite yet.

[@jesuschrist8]

It's Second Life all over again. People who bought virtual lands all lost their money as graphics improve and made previous virtual worlds worthless and empty. Read back on news and the hype surrounding Second Life and Linden Dollar. Coca-cola even poured millions in it.

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[@NonaManis229]

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[@ascgazz]

Robin Williams said that way more elegantly.

[@thelasvegaskid]

What companies should be invest in ? Sand? Mana?

[@hanselmansell7555]

Yeh but who wants to stumble about all day in swimming goggles? 🤔

[@krunkle5136]

People who want their hypersensitivity enabled while 'interacting' with people still.

[@FJTx100]

And getting butt hurt by crotch grabbers...lol.

[@hanselmansell7555]

@@krunkle5136 😅🤣😅

[@FJTx100]

Lol, bull. The Zuck is going broke.

[@89simba57]

I should also take advantage of stupid people with money

[@JT_2024-c8j]

The issue will be the same as 3D TV and current VR games, nausea and headaches. You wouldn’t be able safely immerse unless you’re sat at home which cuts the user time down drastically compared to scrolling on a phone.

[@johnsuarilla141]

Even if they gave away the headsets for free MAYBE people would use them for the metaverse, I doubt they could even get half of the people they'd given them to be active users.

[@jackl4laughs]

Pass. Zuck has proven he has no interest in morals, so I'd never wear a headset of his that's recording your eye movements to capture more ways to manipulate you. He brags about selling your info to anyone willing to pay, you think he isn't going to sell all the data his equipment records about you?

[@aliengod3528]

I would try it get bored and sell the headset

[@onsokumaru4663]

This thing even at a distance does not look exciting let alone playing it

[@Storm_409]

I know a lot of people are getting sick of Social Media. It's not the same as it used to be. It started out quite fun (Piczo, Bebo, MySpace and MSN) and has now evolved into toxicity (Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter). This Metaverse crap is going to flop. More and more people are seeing through this BS.

[@larsthorwald3338]

Idiocy, driven by FOMO.

[@ageoflove1980]

money *cough* laundering *cough*

[@riccia888]

We wake up, we eat, we go out to work, we go home and socialize in discord. Rinse and repeat. No VR needed.

[@davidgray8321]

Money down the toilet. There's a real world outside that could really do with some investment.

[@mulagraphics]

Everyone Metaverse will not be the same - my metaverse will be more realistic and user dont have to spend money or buy NFT's / land to have fun. The real future of Virtual events🔥🔥

[@DogeHandle]

I’m from the future and The Metaverse will change 2023

[@CopperDigitalInc]

The metaverse is the next big thing in the tech world, with the potential to offer multi-trillion-dollar business opportunities in the long term. Which is why brands want to take advantage of this exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of this groundbreaking technology and are investing millions in the metaverse, as they know it's the future of online experiences.

[@Sunil-wi4yw]

Nice try

[@zaycheese1139]

Roblox games are not "metaverse". They are just simple games that are meant to advertising sponsored companies.

[@gson7837]

If metaverse is about nft, buying lands, and making as much money, than its doom from the start. Still hoping VR/AR explode.

[@paullasky6865]

I often check in on BBC and sky news to see what the enemy of the people are doing

[@JoeTidy]

Just read Snow Crash to help understand ‘the metaverse’ but there’s not really much of the story set in the virtual world. It was a bit of a slog. Ready Player One is far better to get your head around this concept

[@coldcreation6676]

*Roblox millions* *Land buying started in metaverse* Are people really are going to wear digital clothing in the future? *For the young virtual world and real world are the same* *There's a lot you have to think about before you are putting your money in*

[@ready4ye461]

Digital land? Is that in the cloud or blockchain?

[@krunkle5136]

Idk it's on someone's sever.

[@FP19487]

“Years away..” Try decades.

[@jwatson9732]

They'd be just as well investing millions down the toilet.

[@duomaxwell1398]

BBC, do you realise it's November 2022?

[@omnigeddon]

(Sees someone walkin 👀 around ina normal work outfit..) **puts on augmented glasses of the future allowing me to see peoples digital outfits* **feints from coolness of gg ultra armor 5000**...

[@Kevin-be1ou]

I foresee obesity becoming an even bigger issue than it is today.

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[@aaronbenhaggai973]

Meta verse is gonna go the way of nfts lol will be dead in a few years

[@richard7645]

Let's hope 🙏

[@fritzdeuces]

I already feel dizzy watching clips from the metaverse.

[@filippo8189]

God, please NOO. I’m a millennial and hate the idea of a “metaverse” whatever that’s supposed to mean.

[@t.s.adrian8785]

God is like: "You know what? I'm done. You be you, Earth. I'm just gonna start over with Venus."

[@3094usmc]

World War 3 will have everyone interacting in the Metaverse. It's a no brainer.