> These companies are at war trying to capture our attention on smartphones. Imagine what they'll do to win when we're all plugged in. I don't disagree that th

> These companies are at war trying to capture our attention on smartphones. Imagine what they'll do to win when we're all plugged in. I don't disagree that they're competing for attention, nor that the field is perfect for someone to come along and show us something we weren't expecting (like VRChat; made by two people). But this is Facebook, not DARPA or Skunk Works. Their core offerings are a website, a photo sharing app they acquired, and a messaging app that they also acquired. This is fundamentally an advertising company. The wildcard was a consumer hardware company that they also acquired. This is not DNA that can innovate a 'metaverse' into existence. You can't just grab a couple of executives, a bunch of mid-level managers, and a few hundred developers and demand that they innovate and expect anything to come out of it.