Meta's VR/AI Investments
Discussions center on Meta's massive spending on VR, Metaverse, and AI projects, questioning the rationale, Zuckerberg's priorities over shareholder value, and potential incentives or returns.
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Why is Meta doing it though? This is an astronomical investment. What do they gain from it?
How could a company called Meta be so shortsighted?
What would the incentive be for Meta?
I guess if this is true then it's more than "it's too tempting". Meta is a huuuuge business today and it wouldn't have been without being profitable. I don't think they really provided much value besides facebook (I think instagram and whatsapp are great apps, but they're replaceable), but now they definitely are with their entry in VR/AR. The Quest 2 is really something, and I can't wait to see what they'll build in the AR space.
This isn't substantial money for Meta, is it?
If meta cared about shareholder value they wouldnt be spending 10 bil a year on VR. Decisions at meta are made with marks interests in mind
I've bought some Meta stocks when it dipped, as I figured they were "too big to fail" and would eventually go up. However, I've been contemplating selling all the stocks I've bought because of this and the previous ad.If these are kind of the ads that comes out after millions of dollars spent and hours of collective thinking; I don't think whatever they are building now will be appealing to people. As another comment HN have put it: they've lost all touch wi
Meta trying to recover some of their investment into VR via sales to the tech graveyard?
There are better articles explaining this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2025/11/25/metas-ai-... and https://www.wsj.com&
Why? Meta is controlled by someone who is completely unanswerable to his investors. What incentive does he have to show any progress?