Do you remember that going into 2022, this would be the year of the Metaverse? Good, Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for a new era of virtual reality is just launching is already in trouble.

Global shipments from virtual Y increased reality devices abandonment 12 percent this year, and sales of Meta’s own VR headset fell two percent in the United States, according to a analyst sign C.CS Knowledge. Not exactly the boom that was expected.

And 2023 doesn’t seem like a better year for the Metaverse either. CSS Insight predicts that next year will be another “slow year” for the VR market, due to a weak economy and costly inflation. As consumer budgets get tighter, non-essential purchases like VR headsets may not cut it.

That doesn’t help either…