Comment by walrus01

The cynic in me says maybe they would be further along if they hadn't spent $80 billion on trying to build the "Metaverse" VR world. I've never met anyone who actually uses it and to the best of my knowledge it has very low mass market uptake.

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/mark-z...

Not exactly the best use of dollars and the labor hours of some of the best minds of our generation.