You didn't ask for it but Nvidia's gonna get you a metaverse-as-a-service cloud

Nvidia is counting on metaverse FOMO to drive enterprises to its Omniverse-as-a-service platform. At Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) today, the chip designer unveiled Omniverse Cloud, which bundles the compute and software grunt needed to build and run metaverse applications on demand, as a service in the cloud, …

[Anonymous Coward]

The context...

this == scam + trap

It seems to me that if you're one of the many companies pushing one of these "XXXverse" 3D paradigms, then one day your company is going to be perceived as a bad investment.

[steviebuk]

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the first few lines and said "Oh fuck off". Stopped reading. This metaverse shit is so bollocks its...its.....its oh fuck off. In the words of Moss from IT Crowd in his "football voice".

"They're 'aving a laugh. No they're 'aving a laugh".

[Anonymous Coward]

Is the "metaverse" even to the point yet that there is a wide-spread need for hosted GPU-intensive server farms? Plus, given how frequently GPUs get revved, by the time (if ever) there is such a need, won't all these current boxes be a couple of generations behind? Who wants to be stuck with racks full of old, somewhat specialized tech like this? Only Nvidia would benefit from such a scheme.

Or is this just Nvidia flopping around on deck like a fish out of water, now that mining is in the decline? Trying to find any way possible to ship more chips and keep the numbers up...

[Anonymous Coward]

I read that as "omni-shambles"