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William Pietri @williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

I'd put the peak of this era in 2021, when Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta, because a VR universe, the metaverse, was the future of both play and work. 9/

An even-less-convincing-than-usual Mark Zuckerberg next to a VR rendering of the Eiffel Tower.

Mark Zuckerberg on stage with a facehugger VR unit and a screen showing his VR experience

A virtual Mark Zuckerberg at an office desk in a virtual meeting

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William Pietri @williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

This era is clearly in retreat with mass Meta layoffs and killing products that were, only a few years ago, the future of both Meta and the world: www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-h… 10/

theverge.com

Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

One more piece of bad news for VR.

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MacBalance @macbalance.mstdn.games.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

@williampietri I think there’s clearly a role for VR/AR goggles especially in engineering/design style things where 3d visualization might be helpful. I personally have minimal interest (despite being both a would-be #Blender creator and into video games) because I find I’m uninterested in […]

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William Pietri @williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

Now as people have already pointed out, stereoscopic 3D has never been totally dead. Look, for example, at this graph of the proportion of movies in 3D. It's kept bumping along. stephenfollows.com/p/how-are-3d-mov… 11/

3D releases as a percentage of all movies produced, 1923-2023. The link is generally well under 0.5%, with peaks of ~2.1% in the 1950s and 0.5% circa 2011.

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