At Meta Connect 2022, the company’s annual developer conference for its virtual reality efforts and the Oculus hardware platform, the company announced a lot of things, but what it communicated more effectively than anything else was how incredibly thirsty, even you could say desperate, Mark Zuckerberg. is that his bet on the metaverse bears fruit.

Before I get ahead of myself, let me clarify that I understand that all of these pre-recorded presentations given by big tech companies are extended announcements. No one disputes it, but Zuck’s overwritten and overproduced dev event keynote today was easily the hardest sell for not just a product or a platform, but the premise it’s based on, that I remember seeing on a decade in technology.

The presentation basically started with…