So their current strategy seems to be to release a series of updates to see what might interest people – a “throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks” approach, if you will.

In addition to Meta Quest Pro, the company also announced at the event that it would be opening up Horizon Worlds, the social networking platform within Meta’s metaverse, to desktop and mobile device users, so that people without headsets can access the virtual world. .

That’s a notable step: it’s a tacit admission that VR headsets aren’t taking off as quickly as the company would like. Without a critical mass of people who understand what the metaverse feels like or is like, Meta can’t expect adoption of its products. Opening up their virtual worlds to the formats consumers are comfortable with…