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sure, for information density, text is always king.

But real-time chatting is not dense, it s in fact very reduntant with lots of information being discarded left and right, and avatats can still text each other. The idea of 3d stuff is just an evolution of that imho, a messenger with extra stuff

We have this stuff already btw, second life users do that every day, but Zuck didnt even mention it.



Because acknowledging Second Life would mean acknowledging the appeal of the most established virtual reality is that you can be someone/something different, and that goes against Facebook's real name identification.

Also, they probably want to keep the nsfw aspect synonymous with Second Life out of the discussion.


You would have to be mad to associate your benad new vision of the future of computing with a failed 10 year old game.


20 year old. And hardly a failure, considering that most of the stuff he announced was created and tested there first. He s just copying concepts.




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