[transitory_pce]

Remember: Facebook grew from a core product that was essentially a "better" copy of numerous existing products. Same for the Google.

Starting entirely new things is not their strength. And it is not the strength of people working in mega corps. So you get nonsense like this, or if they do only after many years by hiring from scrappy hungry startups who solve the problem first..

If you build anything remotely Metaverse related and it works you will get acquired, because now.. the Metaverse _needs to_ succeed. And they're not going to do it with the people who work there.

[algebraically]

Facebook/Meta is a consumer company. All the worthwhile applications of remote presence are going to be in industrial spaces that combine robotics with VR. I see no way that Facebook/Meta will do anything worthwhile or useful in that space.

[JetSpiegel]

> Facebook/Meta is a consumer company.

There's not a single consumer that ever spent 1 dollar on Facebook. It's an advertising company, doing websites and chat apps on the side.

[algebraically]

How is advertising not about consumption?

Facebook enables consumer activity so it's a consumer company. It does not build industrial robots or enable industrial production of any form.

[mads]

Its neither. Their core product is surveillance.