Sujet : Re: VR still on the rise?
De : spallshurgenson (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Spalls Hurgenson)
Groupes : comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.actionDate : 04. Feb 2025, 16:25:38
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And in a similar theme:
Even Facebook is struggling in the market. Sure, their "Reality Labs"
division booked $1 billion in revenue in 2024, but that compares
poorly to their $4.4 billion USD loss.* Admittedly, this isn't
entirely a problem with "VR" so much as the complete and utter failure
of their "Metaverse" project, but even Zuckerberg can only afford to
keep dumping money into VR for so long. Already, there are
'performance cuts being made to the divisions staffing.
All the big names in VR --Facebook, Apple, Sony, Valve-- are backing
away from the technology; not abandoning it totally, but we're seeing
significantly less investment and press on any developments. It's not
paying off the way it was expected to ten years ago. It's been a good
run but it looks like this era of VR is coming to an end.
Maybe in 2040?
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* ooh, underlined text. What happens if you click it?
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/1bn-revenue-not-enough-to-offset-metas-arvr-reality-labs-44-billion-loss