Meta gave everyone free Oculuses and encouraged Metaverse meetings back when I worked there. Almost nobody used it because the product required a lot of setup,

Meta gave everyone free Oculuses and encouraged Metaverse meetings back when I worked there. Almost nobody used it because the product required a lot of setup, was downright ugly, and was completely inferior to the usual Zoom / Workplace Chat meetings in every way. The whole thing had a very top-down feeling, with directors trying to convince managers to make their teams use the Metaverse while nobody in the company really knew what the Metaverse even was. It's great that Meta was still mildly engineer-driven and didn't force employees to use it, because in that case they would have ended with a Microsoft Teams situation.