{"id":14363,"date":"2023-02-02T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/02\/facebooks-vr-division-lost-13-72-billion-in-2022\/"},"modified":"2023-02-02T04:40:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T04:40:48","slug":"facebooks-vr-division-lost-13-72-billion-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/02\/facebooks-vr-division-lost-13-72-billion-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Fb&#8217;s VR Division Misplaced $13.72 Billion In 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"sc-1eow4w5-1 eLNveM align--bleed js_marquee-assetfigure\" data-id=\"1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"1600\" data-height=\"900\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-alt=\"A cartoon Mark Zuckerberg tosses money and VR headsets into a large fire.\" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"false\">\n<div class=\"sc-1eow4w5-2 loxZOX has-data img-wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"max-width:1600px\" data-alt=\"A cartoon Mark Zuckerberg tosses money and VR headsets into a large fire.\" data-link-reference=\"\" data-link-target=\"\" data-syndicationrights=\"true\" data-imagerights=\"getty\" data-hide=\"false\" data-hidecredit=\"false\"><span class=\"sc-1eow4w5-0 dnhHtZ js_lightbox-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.3%\" class=\"sc-1eow4w5-3 lktKQM image-hydration-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_center,h_80,pg_1,q_80,w_80\/1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d.jpg 80w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_140\/1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d.jpg 140w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_265\/1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d.jpg 265w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_340\/1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d.jpg 340w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_490\/1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d.jpg 490w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_645\/1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d.jpg 645w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_740\/1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d.jpg 740w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_965\/1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d.jpg 965w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_1165\/1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d.jpg 1165w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_1315\/1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d.jpg 1315w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_1465\/1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d.jpg 1465w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_1600\/1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 25em) calc(100vw - 32px),(max-width: 37.31em) calc(100vw - 32px),(min-width: 37.37em) and (max-width: 49.94em) calc(100vw - 32px),(min-width: 50em) and (max-width: 63.69em) 800px,(min-width: 63.75em) and (max-width: 85.19em) calc(66.5vw - 32px),800px\" alt=\"A cartoon Mark Zuckerberg tosses money and VR headsets into a large fire.\" draggable=\"auto\" data-chomp-id=\"1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-alt=\"A cartoon Mark Zuckerberg tosses money and VR headsets into a large fire.\" data-anim-src=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-7s1ndr-0 ikKPtM no-caption\">Picture<!-- -->: <!-- -->Kotaku \/ Shutterstock \/ Kevin Dietsch<!-- --> (<!-- -->Getty Photos<!-- -->)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-id=\"1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/1555f6c960f018c89e1fafb248b66f2d\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"1600\" data-height=\"900\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-alt=\"A cartoon Mark Zuckerberg tosses money and VR headsets into a large fire.\" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Fb\u2019s mother or father firm, Meta, is having an honest day right now after beating income and person exercise forecasts for its closing fiscal quarter of 2022. However its VR division isn\u2019t serving to the corporate generate profits. <span>Actually, it\u2019s costing the corporate billions in losses<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\"><span>Whereas it\u2019s true that Meta\u2019s inventory is rising<\/span> in after-hours buying and selling right now after sharing pretty optimistic fourth-quarter monetary outcomes, its VR division, Actuality Labs, didn\u2019t have such optimistic information to share, because it\u2019s persevering with to blow by cash at a surprising price. In the present day, the corporate confirmed it misplaced over $4 billion to VR and metaverse improvement in its closing quarter of 2022. And in whole, it misplaced nicely over <span>$13 billion in 2022<\/span> making an attempt (and failing) to construct a metaverse folks would flock to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">As compared, Meta introduced in $32.1 billion in income throughout all departments and apps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\"><span>As reported by <em>Decrypt.co<\/em><\/span><em>, <\/em>Meta\u2019s Actuality Labs solely introduced in $727 million in income within the closing months of 2022. That\u2019s not nice when in comparison with the billions spent on the division in the identical 12 months, however it\u2019s additionally worse than you may assume. That determine is down 17% from the division\u2019s income in the identical interval of 2021. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Keep in mind too that Fb\u2019s flagship metaverse software program, <em>Horizon Worlds<\/em>, has principally been an enormous flop, with stories that <span>most worlds inside it are empty and barely performed<\/span>. Not solely that, however the firm\u2019s personal workers barely use it, with a leaked inner memo exhibiting that employees at Meta don\u2019t take pleasure in utilizing <em>Horizons Worlds<\/em> as a result of it\u2019s riddled with bugs and different high quality points.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bxm4mm-15 BiRlJ\">\n<div class=\"sc-1atgi65-0 sc-1atgi65-1 bdNdA-D js_commerce-inset-permalink\" data-inset-url=\"https:\/\/go.linkby.com\/IYTBXPMU\" data-inset-category=\"CommerceInsetMobile\">\n<p>G\/O Media might get a fee<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-1atgi65-3 hMBKyp creative-type-A\">\n<div class=\"sc-1atgi65-6 gLSKws\">\n<div class=\"sc-1atgi65-10 hherpH js_lazy-image\"><picture class=\"lazy-picture\"><source media=\"all\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fill,fl_progressive,g_center,h_180,q_80,w_320\/e44b566299dedfdc7ecba2d06353a2e6.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BrainMD\" src=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_center,h_264,pg_1,q_80,w_470\/e44b566299dedfdc7ecba2d06353a2e6.jpg\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-1atgi65-12 dRyRwx\">\n<p class=\"sc-1atgi65-13 iFlqWg\"><strong>Enhance your bloodflow<\/strong><br \/><span>BrainMD claims this proprietary complement will increase blood stream to assist your cognitive and cardiovascular capabilities<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Actually the one huge success story from Actuality Labs is the Oculus Quest 2 headset, which was seen by many as an inexpensive various to dear PC and console VR headsets and was additionally utterly standalone. However in July Meta<span> raised the value of that inexpensive headset by $100<\/span>, with the 128GB mannequin now costing $400 and the 256GB model now going for $500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">In November 2022, <span>Meta laid off 11,000 workers<\/span>, blaming covid, \u201cmacroeconomic downturn, elevated competitors, and advertisements sign loss.\u201d <span>Zuckerberg blamed himself for the layoffs<\/span>, however conveniently didn\u2019t point out in his announcement of layoffs how a lot cash the corporate is constant to spent on VR and metaverse improvement. Over the previous few years the corporate has spent <span>tens of billions of {dollars}<\/span> making an attempt to make a VR-powered metaverse a factor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">And now, in February 2023, following huge layoffs and continued losses, it solely has <span>an unappealing and empty PlayStation House clone<\/span> to indicate for all its troubles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/facebook-metaverse-vr-2022-billions-13-billion-quest-2-1850062517\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Picture: Kotaku \/ Shutterstock \/ Kevin Dietsch (Getty Photos) Fb\u2019s mother or father firm, Meta, is having an honest day right now after beating income and person exercise forecasts for its closing fiscal quarter of 2022. However its VR division isn\u2019t serving to the corporate generate profits. Actually, it\u2019s costing the corporate billions in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[758,6915,7133,495],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14364,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14363\/revisions\/14364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}