Meta Reportedly Cutting About 1,500 VR and AR Jobs Amid Renewed Push to Become an AI Juggernaut

https://gizmodo.com/meta-reportedly-cutting-about-1500-vr-and-ar-jobs-amid-renewed-push-to-become-an-ai-juggernaut-2000708826

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/56884744

AI infrastructure will provides Meta with a "strategic advantage," Zuckerberg said. He once said almost the exact same thing about the metaverse.

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bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 237d (1 reply)

I have to wonder what all those metaverse employees were doing.

brsrklf@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 237d

I certainly have no idea either, but that's mainly because I've never wanted anything to do with meta's "verse".

I got their headset because it's good hardware and cheap. And for the next one, I'll be ready to pay more so I can get out of their shitty ecosystem and constant nagging for me to engage with it. Lesson learned I guess.

thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 237d (2 replies)

Meta is fad chasing again

73ms@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 237d (1 reply)

well it's the whole tech industry this time

thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 237d

It's the only thing it's good at

Covenant@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 237d

Can't wait to buy a steam frame. I really like the idea of those Facebook headsets but i would never buy something from Facebook.