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

My point here isn't "3D bad". It's that for 175 years or more, people have been thinking "2D success + stereoscopic 3D technology = the future". It's not a dumb hypothesis, really. People do process (a relatively close portion of) the world with binocular vision. Seems possibly important. 12/

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