Here how much Meta is spending on Reality Labs & it is unfathomable/unprecedented in scale

When does Zuck get shitcanned?

Does the link explain wth a reality lab is?

He started it. Good for him to protect his interest in continuing to lead it.

He’s making a monumental bet on this. If he’s right, then it changed the world. If he’s wrong, then Meta will have a questionable future.

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he's going to end up with is a bunch of 15 year olds with Barney avatars running around trolling everyone with bad language and worse behavior.

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So Tennessee alters and some of their rant posters.

Zuck is putting it all on the line to innovate where he believes the next big thing will be.. whether he's wrong or right, he's got balls of steel

I think he's betting on the right thing. I think we are already metaverses and the whole sector will grow. However, I dont like his vision of the metaverse, too centralized and costly for users.

Balls of steel? What is the downside for the man? He’s got wealth that the next ten generations of his descendants could prudently live life as billionaires with.

Compare this “bravery,” to that of someone like Musk. He took on the Big 3 Automotive Industry after doing similar groundbreaking work that created generational wealth in tech. At the same time, he’s indirectly picked a fight with the fossil fuel industry.

Almost simultaneously, he took on companies like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Booz Allen Hamilton and others by trying to muscle into the NASA Contracting business.

A little further down the road, he’s tried to blaze new paths in multimodal transportation with the Boring Company, on and he’s tried to create solar energy in the home building industry as well as commercial sectors.

He did most of his work at Tesla and the Boring Company with open patents. You want to talk about balls of steel? frick Mark Zuckerberg. Musk is the one with titanium testicles.

He’s taken on the auto industry, the military industrial complex, the fossil fuel industry, and oh by the way…trying to defend democracy and free speech absolutism from the Left…worldwide.

I haven’t even talked about Starlink.

Zuckerberg has money. But his, “bravery,” is a joke compared to what someone like Musk is trying to accomplish.

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I think he's betting on the right thing.

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I have hands on experience in this realm and have followed VR and related areas since they were first explored at SIGGRAPH decades ago.

The 10 billion VR dog won't hunt. It is a physical limit due to the eye strain of looking at little screens an inch or two in front of the eyes. Wearing the goggles for extended periods of time is also an annoyance.

Get rid of the goggles and replace the long outdated and crappy cartoony graphics, and the concept might work.

I think Zuck saw a demo at a convention and thought it was a great idea. VR does make a good convention floor attraction due to short duration exposure and novelty.

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Get rid of the goggles and replace the long outdated and crappy cartoony graphics, and the concept might work.

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That's where the billions are going, tbh. It's not ready right now, to be sure. Probably won't be ready for 5+ years.

You didn’t have to. One guy’s picking fights to better humanity at the helm of a bunch of companies that issue common stock and open source patents.

The other guy owns a majority of a company using controlled shares and will never be threatened with control and has shared nothing about the billions he’s spending.

That you think it’s ballsy that a Billionaire is spending billions while truly risking nothing versus others who risk their decisions removing them from their companies and sharing much of the actual work they’ve pioneered with the rest of the world for free is cute.

I don’t support one over the other. I just understand bravery better than you do.

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Seems he should have paid for TikTok

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TikTok burns more money than Reality Labs. It only works because the Chinese Government bankrolls it so they can spy.