Mark Zuckenberg pays 10 billion for selfie

Boss Mark Zuckenberg shows what he looks like in the Metaverse after a $10 billion investment.

Last year, the great leader of Facebook, Mark Zuckenberg, presented his vision for the future in a roaring presentation. The company was renamed to Meta and development of the Metaverse was announced.

A long presentation with 3D avatars and a cool virtual world. A significant investment was announced. This week Mark showed a new image of himself from that digital virtual Metaverse world. That image looks just a little less flashy than that presentation from a year ago.

Ten billion, and all he got…

The reactions don’t lie. All of Twitter is falling over poor Mark. Tech journalist John McCarthy does have some advice for Zuckenberg: stop this…

This is bad. They should stop. It doesn’t look like an actual product. There’s nothing ‘immersive’ about this. It doesn’t have to look realistic if it has a creative direction. When your core product looks like the painted walls of an abandoned daycare center you have to wonder. pic.twitter.com/sclPmBT8Ng

— John McCarthy (@JohnGeeMcCarthy) August 17, 2022

So far, Meta has invested around $10 billion in the project. That investment is for the long term and Zuckenberg does not expect to earn back immediately. We think so too. The PC Gamer site puts it this way:

Mark Zuckerberg spent $10 billion on the metaverse and all he got was this stupid selfie

Second Life

In 2007 there was already such a thing as Second Life. In design, the Metaverse also resembles that somewhat. An online world that works like the real world. Meta does use VR glasses. But if you put the graphics side by side, that seems to be the only development in 15 years:

We agree with the skeptical reactions online, to say the least. Curious where this is going. Let’s hope that with these investments something hipper will come out of the pen than a Second Life look-a-like. But that will cost another billion or ten extra…