In October 2021, Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company, Facebook, which owns and operates the world’s largest social networks, would shift its focus from the two-dimensional social media business to the “metaverse” and spend $10 billion per year to go there. . Since then, the journey has been a rocky one for the newly renamed Meta. The turn to a VR-first business has proven costly. Users aren’t embracing the $1,500 Oculus Quest or the company’s other devices at the same rate as Facebook and Instagram. They’re busy mocking Horizon Worlds, Meta’s flagship metaverse game, for looking like a Second Life pirate. Meta stepped on her own fair share of rakes; for example, he released Horizon Worlds in Spain without translating…