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Facebook beware: the metaverse is flat

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Facebook beware: the metaverse is flat

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

In a few weeks, Mark Zuckerberg will announce a new virtual reality headset from Meta Platforms Inc. Unfortunately, we already know what it will look like. A video of the alleged device has been making the rounds online after someone found one in a hotel room. None of that should matter, though, because glitzy VR headsets are becoming a huge distraction, and aren’t all that integral to the early growth of the so-called metaverse, a 3D version of the internet that many see as its next chapter. Turns out flat screens work just fine.

While Facebook has sold around 14 million VR headsets to date, millions more have entered the metaverse through regular 2D screens like the one you’re seeing now, through apps like Roblox and Epic Games Inc.’s. .

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