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If that's $5 Billion with a 'B', that is a lot of R&D. More, for example, than one can usefully spend on R&D for that topic. There are only so many qualified
by rossdavidh 5y ago
If that's $5 Billion with a 'B', that is a lot of R&D. More, for example, than one can usefully spend on R&D for that topic. There are only so many qualified employees and only so many projects ready for focused R&D, in a field that is still more aspirational than anything else. That seems like 1 or 2 orders or magnitude more money than you can usefully spend. Someone will find some way to spend however much money you throw at them, but $5 Billion seems way too high.
- smoldesu 5y agoCounterpoint: Meta is rumored to have 3 or 4 headsets coming down the pipeline for the next 3 years, and those headsets need mass-production research, games, firmware, OSes and more. Yes, it's a lot of money. Once you consider that a lot of it is going to fund game studios and thousands of software engineers, I don't think it's a terribly far-fetched figure.