Im just dumbfounded that they would take a burgeoning technology like VR and set the impossible goal that it would one day supplant the absurd profits of their ad business.
Thats like trying to tag your kid as a Heisman trophy winner as the kid is being birthed. Sure be a proud parent but understand you are delusional.
Facebook is a company with nearly two decades of big tech experience, 40,000+ employees, and unfathomable amounts of capitol/IP/assets. To see them make the same logical leap as a two person startup of fresh-out-of-college optimists.
Someone I know recently got contacted by a recruiter for Meta's VR team, with the pitch that the team "wants to get 1Bn [users] by end of year!".
That'd amount to converting 30% of all Facebook users to VR users, worldwide, in four months. Including a bunch of users internationally who don't even own computers, and certainly can't afford VR hardware. "Delusional" is absolutely the word for it.
I think VR is as much about GAMES as it is hardware. I don't think anyone, even Apple, can nail the hardware but they might. But I know FOR SURE Apple won't nail the games. Look at Amazon's attempts (lol).
Thats like trying to tag your kid as a Heisman trophy winner as the kid is being birthed. Sure be a proud parent but understand you are delusional.
Facebook is a company with nearly two decades of big tech experience, 40,000+ employees, and unfathomable amounts of capitol/IP/assets. To see them make the same logical leap as a two person startup of fresh-out-of-college optimists.