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pesustoday at 9:53 AM2 repliesview on HN

I still can't comprehend how they managed to blow that much money on what appears to be just a worse version of VR Chat.


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wolvoleotoday at 11:47 AM

Yeah and VRChat must have cost like what? A few million?

One thing that VRChat did lack and horizons had is an in-app builder though. On VRChat you have to use unity which is a big barrier.

But other similar apps do have built in builders too like viverse and spatial have that too and they haven't cost billions either.

I don't know what they've done with all that cash but it feels like they have very little to show for it. Some decent hardware sure but still.

burnt-resistortoday at 10:21 AM

When I worked there a few years back, my eyes rolled hard without VR at $22B of CapEx being spent without clearly-established market demand. They should've spent $1B at least on marketing Workplace and that home assistant box, whatever it was called.