There are many amazing things about VR and the metaverse.

Hanging out in a virtual reality conference room all day built by Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook is not one of them.

They are the literal matrix. Dial out. https://t.co/CZKnHqgFBM

— Minds (@minds) August 19, 2021

It kind of all comes back to Facebook wanting to figure out how to work in VR, and have VR work with everything else…and not have everyone need to work in VR. Because most people aren’t in VR when they’re being virtual. From last year: https://t.co/1hEMNH7Se7

— Scott Stein (@jetscott) August 19, 2021

I have invented an application that renders the experience of sitting in dead-stopped traffic with perfect accuracy. https://t.co/omk3zlqyh7

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) August 19, 2021

Here's what Mark Zuckerberg is announcing in his interview on CBS: "A virtual reality app that lets you and your coworkers feel like you're sitting around a table in a conference room."https://t.co/NbdFuCfYxf

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 19, 2021

Nobody:

Facebook summer intern: Hey, does anyone remember that video classic from the 80s with Sting and that guitar guy where...

Facebook leadership: The future of conference calls is the metaverse, which we are very good at according to many sources.https://t.co/SCqGTvBzoC https://t.co/Pcthi2OQGF

— Jay Cuthrell (@JayCuthrell) August 19, 2021

My grandfather literally canned tuna in Puerto Rico for a living but soon I'll get to sit inside a VR conference room to go over virtual Power Points. Now that's progress! https://t.co/iTLH0I0N5b

— Nicholas De Leon (@nicholasadeleon) August 19, 2021

Can’t wait for my relatives’ cartoon avatars to post some insane rants about vaccines in the metaverse. https://t.co/kS95XiIskn

— Mark Di Stefano (@MarkDiStef) August 19, 2021

I’m sorry but you have to just lol https://t.co/zqmkBPAwNL pic.twitter.com/aUduXFUe2l

— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) August 19, 2021

just because FB uses the word metaverse to describe a dumb product that’s gonna fail doesn’t mean that you have to use that word too in fact it might even be your job to just use common language to describe the dumb thing

— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) August 19, 2021

Introducing Horizon Workrooms on @Oculus Quest 2: your new virtual meeting room to sketch ✍️, brainstorm? and collaborate with your team ? — no matter where you are. We think it’s one of the best ways to work if you can’t be physically in the same room. pic.twitter.com/YcbYKtzUGj

— Facebook (@Facebook) August 19, 2021

ZUCKERBERG: “I don't think that this suggests in any way that we're going to try to become an enterprise company, but I do think that work is going to be one of the key use cases that people try to do in the metaverse.”

(via ⁦@WIRED⁩) $FB https://t.co/aSHytG9VDD

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) August 19, 2021

It’s almost too easy to snark about this, so I’ll let a million others do it.

I’ll only add this: The Quest 2 headset weighs a bit over 1 pound. It takes 2.5 hours to charge, and lasts about 2.5 hours.https://t.co/VpqCUEoi1Z

— Aron Pilhofer (@pilhofer) August 19, 2021

i love how fb and all these tech companies are like Hyperealist Metaverse Is the Future while my for you page and insta is filled w memes like this from young people who are tired of the internet pic.twitter.com/0iZWxM7pJA

— Makena Kelly (@kellymakena) August 19, 2021

spent some time in VR with Mark Zuckerberg the other day https://t.co/YM4riZEwRV

— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) August 19, 2021

so let me get this straight: the company that has helped millions of people “awaken through Q” and destroyed families and governments would like you to hold all of your most important and expensive conversations inside of its “Metaverse”

Ok

— drew olanoff (@yoda) August 19, 2021

Facebook’s big announcement on CBS published early (feels like “Early Edition.”

The news: It’s connected to the metaverse and a use case for Quest in virtual offices. pic.twitter.com/25n9aVnhqV

— Bowdeya Tweh (@BowKnowsBiz) August 19, 2021

I'd like the interview the first company to use the Facebook VR meeting thing, because I always like interviewing the final company to use something.

— Dan Primack (@danprimack) August 19, 2021

Facebook wants to distract you from the @FTC's updated antitrust filing today. https://t.co/JMl9oc5nFi

— Jan Schakowsky (@janschakowsky) August 19, 2021

"sorry i'm late guys I couldn't remember the meeting password" https://t.co/TzTZhUn2Re pic.twitter.com/wxKVJtfjM3

— manny (@mannyfidel) August 19, 2021

Also Facebook reallllly showed slack who’s boss with their work product didn’t they

— drew olanoff (@yoda) August 19, 2021

a weird thing happened over the past nine months: millions of people actually got into VR (including companies buying headsets for employees)

after years of fizzled hype cycles, is mainstream virtual reality….*actually* around the corner?https://t.co/h6yWYXUSiX

— rat king (@MikeIsaac) August 19, 2021

Terrible ide—wait, can I pick a fight with the Simulated Mark Zuckerberg? If so then I'm in. https://t.co/qzqRPjVdAc

— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) August 19, 2021

Stunningly realistic VR, down to people on Zoom having their cameras off. https://t.co/AiSWOIEIg2 pic.twitter.com/QxO5poBINu

— Aaron Huertas (@aaronhuertas) August 19, 2021

My repeated pitches to host newspaper editorial meetings inside Second Life during lockdown never took off but maybe this will https://t.co/GZD2NmBcWA

— James Cook (@JamesLiamCook) August 19, 2021

Everyone: can you please stop Facebook from spreading disinformation that’s prolonging the pandemic and contributing to the downfall of democracy

Mark Zuckerberg: no but what if I made zoom worse

— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) August 19, 2021

Hard pass https://t.co/N2nqe7udl2

— Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal) August 19, 2021

Hahahahahaha it's even dumber and crueller than I thought https://t.co/LrlvbSas3E

— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) August 19, 2021

I’m no fan of Facebook, but I do fully embrace virtual workspaces. I find working remotely is more efficient, and I’m more productive because I’ve invested into my home office. Definitely ready to abandon brick and mortar. #DecentralizeBusiness https://t.co/KmRQQQHWe1

— Hilluminati (@bryanedwardhill) August 19, 2021

a real tension of designing new wfh tools is whether to ease the transition by making things feel like they were when we were in office or by trying to get us to change what work is/means. one way is meh/insidious and the other could be quite meaningful https://t.co/Meq4RSO2f1

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) August 19, 2021

By the way, VR Remote work is a terrible idea.

The Oculus is nice and I absolutely recommend one for gaming, but wearing one for more than an hour is painful, exhausting and dizzying.

I'm also just very unclear on what problem this VR App is supposed to be solving.

— Dmitry Grozoubinski (@DmitryOpines) August 19, 2021

Sure, a totally trustworthy company to let be the medium for sensitive corporate or personnel decisions ? https://t.co/0zHFvvTBDQ

— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) August 19, 2021

Here’s ⁦@alexeheath⁩ on Facebook’s new VR conference room tech, including clips of Zuck and Boz expounding in VR. Love that some people were on Zoom on a VR conference room TV; I hope the system recreates crappy conference room AV as well https://t.co/3G472Pa44p

— nilay patel (@reckless) August 19, 2021

"At one point Zuckerberg had to leave and rejoin the room because his avatar’s mouth wasn’t moving at all when he spoke" https://t.co/ePFvzTLiTl

— kif (@kifleswing) August 19, 2021

Skeuomorphism. https://t.co/9lHqoKmrO3

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) August 19, 2021

What happens when you combine the worst features of face to face meetings with the worst features of virtual reality?https://t.co/zSNyeWw7Br

— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) August 19, 2021

Update: there is, in fact, a metaverse laptop dongle https://t.co/YESWgAGc1R pic.twitter.com/QLacj8Ql7x

— nilay patel (@reckless) August 19, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for meetings https://t.co/b8yumLvKRd pic.twitter.com/mvaaFFSL6J

— Sam Ro ? (@SamRo) August 19, 2021

reject modernity; embrace tradition https://t.co/KTRiiVBE6q pic.twitter.com/ZHXIbUHHNi

— James Vincent (@jjvincent) August 19, 2021

“One way or another, I think we’re going to live in a mixed-reality future,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive. https://t.co/Yg2lko5UCS

— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) August 19, 2021

I say this as someone who actually loves immersive VR: this looks like hell. https://t.co/hwIAYdr4AI

— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers) August 19, 2021

“メタバース”への急傾斜を示していたFacebook、オフィスワークをメタバース化したサービス「Horizon Workrooms」を発表。会見自体を、CEOのZuckerberg氏（とスタッフ）と招かれた記者など10名が出席してWorkrooms上で行った。必要デバイスはもちろん「Oculus Quest 2」｜https://t.co/oQI2ro6q6T

— 藤村厚夫 (@afujimura) August 19, 2021

Facebook Releases New App That Turns Virtual Meetings Into A Dystopian Nightmare https://t.co/3XS64sZ7wP

— #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) August 19, 2021

Yes. Let's conduct all of our confidential business through tools provided by an advertising and data stripping company.https://t.co/qRGjn4IJWY

— Derek Kinsman ?? (@derekkinsman) August 20, 2021

"Steal my DNA and do something actually fucked up and weird and bad! Clone my ass, Zuck! Send my roboclones to fight in a space war against the Boston Dynamics dog robots while I bathe in a pod of goo! I want THAT. I don’t want more work meetings."https://t.co/tvj9zl8RMb

— Brandon Hardin (@hardin) August 19, 2021

so good ⁦@katienotopoulos⁩ https://t.co/Ogny7FoV1f

— Natalie Alcoba (@nataliealcoba) August 20, 2021

If Facebook execs were in charge of Estonia’s digital development, we would be sending our avatars to virtually queue for government services. So glad we had early innovators who realised tech can also give people new ways of working and more time instead. https://t.co/VGJDH9ls03

— Adam Rang (??/??) (@adamrangpr) August 20, 2021

I am no longer contractually obligated to say things like this but... @katienotopoulos is an international treasure and we are just lucky to exist in the same time and space: https://t.co/x7QA1zY8NV via

— mat honan (@mat) August 19, 2021

Your big moonshot into the future of VR is goddamn meetings?

This honestly makes my blood boil. The biggest waste of technology and talent in a generation. Shameful. https://t.co/pc8Br0eMWA

— joemag (@joemag_games) August 19, 2021

“We were promised flying cars and a VR whale jumping out of a basketball court. What we got is just another way to attend the work meetings we’re already sick of attending.” https://t.co/ymz0GT7hQ1

— Lisa Tozzi (@lisatozzi) August 19, 2021

"The metaverse is the officeverse, and office work is boring. Meetings are boring. A large corpus of popular art is devoted to this concept." https://t.co/BoihR4AAp9

— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) August 19, 2021

Siri, show me a massive betrayal of imaginationhttps://t.co/312R0o2AQu

— Ben Hammersley (@benhammersley) August 19, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg swears he has friends, they just live in a different Metaverse https://t.co/MCkeaCmZH3 pic.twitter.com/8axntA73VB

— The A.V. Club (@TheAVClub) August 20, 2021