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It’s really mind boggling how much money Meta spent on this thing.

Any time someone complains about the government buying $600 toilet seats as an example of how the government wastes money, just point them to the MetaVerse.

$600 for a virtual toilet seat.

And let's not forget India's Mars mission (orbiter, not a rover) was even cheaper at "just" $75 million [1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/saritharai/2013/11/07/how-india...

Did they seriously spend that much money on it??? How???

I don’t know if that’s how much they spent on it or was that how much they “spent” on it.

But the cumulative cost of Reality Labs was apparently indeed $36B over 3 years.