2024-01-09
Thoughts on Unity layoffs (and the general layoffs happening in the industry). 1/ 1. Money got expensive. For years, companies could borrow money nearly for free, and this fueled massive expansion. That is no longer the case, hense a contraction.
Reuters
Filing and memo: Unity Software plans to lay off ~25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs, by the end of March 2024, its largest layoff ever and affecting all teams
Videogame software provider Unity Software (U.N) will target laying off approximately 25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs …
2023-11-16
They fixed it. Everything is fixed now.
VentureBeat
At its conference, Unity says Unity 6 is coming in 2024 and releases early access versions of Unity Muse, an AI suite for content creation, and Unity Cloud
Unity, the global game engine and monetizationplatform, said that its Unity 6 platform will launch in 2024 with AI innovations and platform updates.
2021-07-27
Shut up about the metaverse already. MMO's in 1999 are closer to the metaverse than 99% of what people are talking about as being the metaverse these days. You're just making an another app.
Protocol
Facebook announces a new Metaverse product group, with plans to hire hundreds of staff, led by Instagram VP Vishal Shah, reporting to VR/AR VP Andrew Bosworth
The company plans to hire hundreds of new staffers for the group. — Facebook is all in on the Metaverse …