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Because it's been very clear for a long time that the vast majority of people do not want to play VR Second Life.

Meta's vision was worse than that. They were trying to hype doing work meetings in VR. There's a case to be made that VR games and VR universes can be fun... But work meetings?

Mark Zuckerberg using his company to build things he's the primary user for?

It worked when he wanted a system for ranking Harvard girls by appearance.

> There's a case to be made that VR games and VR universes can be fun... But work meetings?

If it's actual holograms like in Star Wars? Sure, why not. Get the visual and body language cues of the rest of the room but no one has to physically congregate at a location.

But pixelated, cartoon avatars? Yeah, wtf.

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