As Meta funnels billions into VR, some developers worry about strict app store rules, acquisitions that dominate the market and throttle competition, and more
Virtual reality creators say Meta now has the power to determine which apps will be successful and which will be left in obscurity Tweets: @naominixwrites , @naominixwrites , @iansherr , @mattnavarra , and @gamos Tweets: Naomi Nix / @naominixwrites : New: As Meta has invested billions in making big gamble to building the metaverse, VR developers say — FOR NOW— the company has virtually unchecked market power to determine which of them find economic success and which are left in obscurity https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Naomi Nix / @naominixwrites : Or as one developer put it: “I love that they're burning $10 billion of cash a year to propel this hardware...The trade-off is there are a lot of perverse incentives in that because they — at the end of the day — want everybody in their ecosystem.” Ian Sherr / @iansherr : Amazing how little has changed in the VR world over the past couple years. That unchecked market power in part comes from so few people still buying the devices, leaving developers to rely on other sources of funding to keep getting by. https://www.cnet.com/... https://twitter.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : Facebook accused of repeating in VR the strategy that gave it a dominant role in social media https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... GV Amos / @gamos : What's the solution? There must be a better way.. We can't continue this Google,Apple,Facebook/Meta,.. Web2 monopoly store bunk into t new era of Web3, The Metaverse & the Smart Web @washingtonpost @NaomiNixWrites #Web3 #Metaverse #VR #gaming #monopoly https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...