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2) They will be facing increasing amounts of competition ex. apple. The metaverse is more than the hardware. The first big player in this space will be a game company, possibly one we aren't aware of yet.

3) Not enough to change anyone's usage habits. Just slows down the inevitable.

4) Privacy and the ads environment will continue to hurt them. There's no answer to this yet.

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> The metaverse is more than the hardware. The first big player in this space will be a game company.

Don’t drink the FB look-aid that tries to make it seem as if the metaverse isn’t already here. It’s Fortnite, Minecraft, and Discord and has nothing to do with VR and everything to do with virtual spaces. VR is FB’s attempt to buy their way into the gaming scene in a market that isn’t already dominated by existing players — PC/Console/Mobile.

Metaverse sounds to me like VR did: theoretically interesting, practically inconvenient.

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