Somewhat agree. In physical infrastructure, they're spending ~$40 billion over 2 years on hardware without a specific goal or product in mind. On the product

Somewhat agree. In physical infrastructure, they're spending ~$40 billion over 2 years on hardware without a specific goal or product in mind. On the product front, maybe Threads will be something different from Twitter/X and Instagram. I still fail to see how it's not an and-me-too, undifferentiated product. I agree that H.W. is a joke. VR is an unconquered category for 50+ years, like flying cars, probably because there is no "there" there and it's not useful or better to enough people on its own. It could be useful for limited, tailored solutions like virtual building walkthroughs, construction, architecture, engineering, air traffic control, and occasional gaming but I don't see everyone wanting non-AR VR. Rich AR with some VR aspects would be much more useful, such as glasses or contacts that can provide overlays of information while moving in the physical world. Virtually visiting the physical or virtual worlds is an add-on but not a useful category by itself. Oculus allows for running a VR game like Fallout 4 VR on a PC with GPU acceleration, but then presenting it on a device like a Oculus Quest Pro over WiFi. The linking is a PITA and failure-prone. Honestly, most of the Oculus software feels like an incomplete, alpha-stage product with a shiny UI over it. Even the Oculus Quest Pro hardware reeked of nasty VOCs straight out of the box. The other things are capable VR headsets are expensive, bulky, battery limited, and insufficiently multipurpose. Overarching problems with Meta, Google, and Apple is they suffer from the pathologies and encumbrances of publicly-traded businesses with corporate red-tape, certain they want to stay relevant, profit today, kill off good products arbitrarily, risk-aversion, imagination calcification, and cluelessness about what will be The Next Big Thing™. Their loss is the gain of cleverer teams to bring the future by executing on what big companies will not or cannot do.