When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would be renamed “Meta,” the public and media were quick to point out the thinly veiled attempt to separate the company from a host of bad press. . From Cambridge Analytica to the “Facebook Papers,” Zuckerberg’s brand needed a new name and a new public perception. Combine this with the fact that Facebook was losing daily active users for the first time and the name change made sense.

What made perhaps the least sense was Zuckerberg’s simultaneous announcement of a foray into the world of virtual reality. What the edge reported, “In the next decade, he believes most people will be spending time in a fully immersive 3D version of the Internet that encompasses not just Meta’s…