Meta says it's shifting some of its metaverse investment to AI glasses and wearables “given the momentum” and “we aren't planning any broader changes than that”
hammering on something they think is working, the rayban glasses Luna / @lunayian : To my knowledge, what you should probably expect to see near-term is a lot of RL's metaverse efforts being focused more on refining consumer experiences (both HW/SW) rather than experimentation/RnD. Bluesky: Paul Barrett / @paulthedogman : Zuckerberg is a zillionaire because he got a jump on the social media craze and bought up his potential rivals. Since then, for more than a decade, he's stumbled, burning through many, many billions. He changed the co's name to Meta, but the metaverse is a bust. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t... Waldo Jaquith / @waldo.net : This is how I learned that Meta has been continuing its bizarre, $70 billion “metaverse” spending *years* after I assumed they'd given up. It's possible that this is, in dollars spent, the biggest waste of money in history. Alexander Howard / @digiphile : Reality Labs spent $70 billion+ over the past 4 years, per @mikeisaac.bsky.social, without developing, launching, & scaling any killer app for Mark Zuckerberg's vision for a #metaverse. Now, Meta is pivoting from virtual reality to smartglasses with AI to augment our vision. (I expect to see... ads.) Laurie Voss / @seldo.com : Meta's full-company pivot to the wrong bet is at long last going to be painfully reversed: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t...