re: Facebook is spending more on Reality Labs than what the US spent on the Apollo program

Man…I’ve seen social media come out of nowhere.

Seen Google Glasses have millions and billions spent on it by Sergey and Co…only to completely faceplant.

Seen Amazon Alexa come pretty close to becoming ubiquitous…making it into our house, our lights, thermostats, cars, phones and speakers…and start to plateau.

I’ll just say this about the Metaverse.

You could use Social Media with a desktop, laptop, feature phone or smartphone.

With Glasses, it cost thousands. With Alexa, it’s a Prime Account and about $30 bucks…and your voice or an app.

With Meta/VR, you can’t use it in a mobile setting, and it costs thousands. Two strikes where failed and successful technologies provide an instructive lesson.

Beyond that…the intent is for the Metaverse to be everything. Yet both worldwide and especially in the US, we have acute shortcomings with respect to broadband infrastructure. We can’t get it nationally, and we certainly have cracked that code worldwide.

So you have a digital territory that people are working and spending billions on right now that can’t be accessed without being hardwired in, using prohibitively expensive hardware, being touted as a societal-wide evolution that requires staggering leaps in connectivity and latency access improvements worldwide before any true shift could occur to said territory.

Zuckerberg views this as a land grab and he’s a first mover. But this looks much more like a Google Glass or Magic Leap than the next Facebook or Social Media landscape.