Meta Confirms 'Shifting Some' Funding 'From Metaverse Toward AI Glasses' (uploadvr.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/06/0217233/meta-confirms-shifting-some-funding-from-metaverse-toward-ai-glasses
- Source link: https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-confirms-shifting-some-funding-from-metaverse-toward-ai-glasses/
> Following Bloomberg's report, other mainstream news outlets including [3]The New York Times , [4]The Wall Street Journal , and [5]Business Insider have published their own reports corroborating the general claim, with slightly differing details...
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> Business Insider's report suggests that the cuts will primarily hit Horizon Worlds, and that employees are facing "uncertainty" about whether this will involve layoffs. One likely cut BI's report mentions is the funding for third-party studios to build Horizon Worlds content. The New York Times report, on the other hand, seems more definitive in stating that these cuts will come via layoffs.
The Reality Labs division "has racked up more than $70 billion in losses since 2021," notes Fortune in [6]their reporting , "burning through cash on blocky virtual environments, glitchy avatars, expensive headsets, and a user base of [7]approximately 38 people as of 2022 ."
[1] https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-confirms-shifting-some-funding-from-metaverse-toward-ai-glasses/
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/meta-s-zuckerberg-plans-deep-cuts-for-metaverse-efforts
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/technology/meta-cuts-metaverse-unit.html?ref=uploadvr.com
[4] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-plans-to-shift-spending-away-from-the-metaverse-d0ac3b7f?ref=uploadvr.com
[5] https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-job-cuts-metaverse-reality-labs-ai-2025-12?ref=uploadvr.com
[6] https://fortune.com/2025/12/05/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-layoffs-cuts-facebook-rebrand/
[7] https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2022/10/07/its-lonely-in-the-metaverse-decentralands-38-daily-active-users-in-a-13b-ecosystem
Horizon Worlds (Score:2)
The problem with free form worlds is they invariably [1]turn into some kind of crappy reality TV show [youtube.com]. That's the only way most people know how to interact with each other.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6w1ssn7szM0
$70 billion (Score:2)
And nothing to show. The Oculus Quest couldn't have cost more than a few million to develop and it's subpar to a lot of lower budget VR headsets like Valve, BigScreen Beyond, PiMax, and others.
If my 1am math is correct (Score:2)
spending 70 billion for 38 active users is costing them 1.8 billion $ per user. I thought FB only made about $30 per user in ad revenue.
Has anyone ever used the metaverse (Score:2)
I have an Occulus Quest 3 headset, and the hardware is great and there are some decent games. But the "metaverse" (Horizon Worlds) is just boring. Why the fuck would I want to go into static hubs and play boring minigames? They're repeating exactly the same mistakes that made Playstation Home on the PS3 suck balls - slow loads with boring content waiting at the other end.
I have the same thoughts now about it as I did for Home - they should have just bundled a proper MMO into the headset with quests, zones
Brilliant move sir! (Score:2)
ai powered glasses are so much different and better than VR headsets! VR headsets merely allowed users to interact with digital 3d spaces using their own bodies - boring, nobody wanted that.
Buuuut these amazing ai glasses are so. much. better. Basically they're exactly like having a phone except they're less easy to use and make you look like an asshole!
Guys, I think this is the secret sauce. We're finally getting ultra-world-shattering-success with these things baby! Lets just pretend the metaverse never h
Re: (Score:1)
It might actually be. Consider this thing:
[1]https://vxtwitter.com/TaylorOg... [vxtwitter.com]
Now consider this but in glasses. In case of phone vs glasses as an interface for modern smartphone, glasses make little sense. Phone is good enough.
But when it comes to this sort of an agentic device, glasses actually provide additional value that phone doesn't. You can just look at things and ask the agent to do with what you're observing. Doing this with the phone is far less intuitive.
[1] https://vxtwitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1996538308697137277?t=Jdyas8P7BQDkNb0lWWckZw&s=33
Re: (Score:2)
Nooooo! I'm still paying off my 3D television set, you insensitive clod! It makes movies look so real!
Re: (Score:2)
One benefit of AI glasses is that it makes it easier for random people to identify an invasion of their privacy and directly punch that asshole right in the face.