Any chance this scuttles long term plans that Meta has with Oculus and they sell it? I'd love to get one, but not willing to have a Facebook account.
Facebook has not produced internal innovations after Facebook. After that everything has been either incremental improvements or acquisitions.
This goes for almost all tech companies.
Sad but true -- I'm still convinced most tech companies could fire 90% of their staff, solely focus on whatever their original core product was, and their revenue would be negligibly affected.
The thing with internal innovations are… well they’re internal. A good portion of their R&D goes into things that aren’t public facing. Facebook is in the metadata business after all, so they have incredible pipelines for that. But culture-wise, they do have a habit of killing projects that are far along for no reason
The Oculus Quest is quite remarkable, and the remarkable features have been developed internally well after Oculus was acquired.