Facebook’s pivot to the metaverse continues to be messy. Meta’s Reality Labs division, house to its {hardware} efforts and different metaverse initiatives, will likely be chopping a few of its tasks, in response to Reuters. It’s not clear which tasks will likely be affected, however Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth reportedly informed workers the corporate is not in a position to afford a few of the work it had as soon as deliberate, and another tasks will likely be “postponed.”
The information is the newest to blow to Meta’s formidable plan to re-orient the corporate round digital actuality and the metaverse slightly than its social community. The firm misplaced $10 billion on Reality Labs in 2021, and plans to rent fewer workers in 2022 than in earlier years.
At the identical time, the corporate is seemingly nonetheless plugging away at Project Cambria, the “high-end” VR headset anticipated this fall. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased new particulars on “color passthrough technology” for the system that may “enable developers to build a whole new level of mixed reality experiences.” The firm additionally simply opened its first bodily retail retailer exterior of the headquarters for Reality Labs.