{"id":1115700,"date":"2026-01-30T10:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vXqhdTQKNJU2khWD46DrHY"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:55:31","slug":"the-metaverse-could-be-a-legendary-misadventure-meta-executive-says-if-reality-labs-doesnt-turn-things-around-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-metaverse-could-be-a-legendary-misadventure-meta-executive-says-if-reality-labs-doesnt-turn-things-around-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The metaverse could be a &#8216;legendary misadventure,&#8217; Meta executive says, if Reality Labs doesn&#8217;t turn things around in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Meta chief technology officer Andrew &#8220;Boz&#8221; Bosworth said in an internal memo shared with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/meta-cto-metaverse-reality-labs-legendary-misadventure-memo-2025-2\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider<\/a> that the company&#8217;s Reality Labs division needs to turn things around in a big way in 2025, or else its whole venture into mixed and virtual reality could go down as a &#8220;legendary misadventure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reality Labs has sunk tens of billions of dollars into VR development, but the technology has never broken through to &#8220;next big thing&#8221; status as once predicted. As we said in August 2024, the losses for Meta &#8220;are <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/vr-hardware\/a-decade-after-buying-oculus-vr-metas-reality-labs-losses-are-spiralling-out-of-control-with-no-end-in-sight\/\">spiralling out of control, with no end in sight<\/a>.&#8221; The division suffered nearly $50 billion in losses over 2020-2024, and the news has not gotten any better since: In its fourth-quarter earnings report released last week, Meta said Reality Labs recorded yet another operating loss of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/01\/29\/metas-reality-labs-posts-5-billion-loss-in-fourth-quarter.html\" target=\"_blank\">$5 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meta has access to virtually unlimited resources, but even it can&#8217;t keep taking those kinds of body shots forever, a point Bosworth made in his memo. &#8220;We need to drive sales, retention, and engagement across the board but especially in MR [mixed reality],&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;And Horizon Worlds on mobile absolutely has to break out for our long term plans to have a chance. If you don&#8217;t feel the weight of history on you then you aren&#8217;t paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year likely determines whether this entire effort will go down as the work of visionaries or a legendary misadventure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nothing&#8217;s out of the question\u2014Bosworth said in a memo last week reported by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/meta-reality-labs-beats-nearly-all-sales-user-targets-2025-1\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider<\/a> that Reality Labs sales had grown by 40% in 2024, which &#8220;positioned [it] for greatness in 2025.&#8221; In this more recent memo, he said the achievement marked Reality Labs&#8217; &#8220;most successful year to date,&#8221; but added that &#8220;it isn&#8217;t enough,&#8221; and that &#8220;we haven&#8217;t actually made a dent in the world yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tough to nail down the real scale of the AR\/VR marketplace. It seems tiny, but in April 2024 tech investor Jack Soslow said &#8220;the VR market is <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/vr-hardware\/meta-spent-dollar43-billion-on-its-vr-division-in-three-months-last-year-and-made-checks-figures-dollar440-million-in-return\/\">larger than perceived<\/a>&#8220;\u2014although as we noted at the time, Soslow was employed by a16z Games, a company that raises investment funds for games industry founders, so the assessment should probably be taken with a grain or two of salt. VR headset ownership among Steam users remains minuscule, according to the most recent <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/hwsurvey\" target=\"_blank\">Steam Hardware and Software survey<\/a>. Reality Labs plans to launch &#8220;half a dozen more AI-powered wearables,&#8221; Bosworth said in the memo, although a timeline for their releases wasn&#8217;t shared.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible that Meta&#8217;s priorities are shifting. Like everyone else, Meta is all-in on generative AI these days, and that&#8217;s not cheap either. Perhaps the whole initiative was doomed the moment Zuckerberg published <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/mark-zuckerberg-spent-dollar10b-on-the-metaverse-and-all-he-got-was-this-stupid-selfie\/\">the worst promotional selfie of all time<\/a>. Bosworth may have obliquely suggested that the metaverse money trucks may be slowing down, writing in his memo that he&#8217;s observed over the last couple years that &#8220;our smaller teams often go faster and achieve better results than our more generously funded teams. Not only that, they are much happier!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Separate from everything else, the simple fact that a top executive at Meta is acknowledging that the company&#8217;s at-all-costs pursuit of VR may have been a spectacular fumble strikes me as remarkable\u2014it&#8217;s not the sort of admission of uncertainty you see every day. If 2025 doesn&#8217;t see the turnaround Meta wants, 2026 could be a very interesting year indeed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"1891103c-4559-49b5-99ef-2ae84c3e6558\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Steam sale dates\" data-dimension48=\"Steam sale dates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:550px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"dmLfcTEceHMYUpsciYxiDT\" name=\"steam rpgs\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-metaverse-could-be-a-legendary-misadventure-meta-executive-says-if-reality-labs-doesnt-turn-things-around-in-2025.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/steam-sale-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"1891103c-4559-49b5-99ef-2ae84c3e6558\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Steam sale dates\" data-dimension48=\"Steam sale dates\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Steam sale dates<\/strong><\/a>: When&#8217;s the next event?<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/epic-games-store-free-games-list\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Epic Store free games<\/strong><\/a>: What&#8217;s free right now?<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: The best freebies you can grab<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-free-games-on-steam\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free Steam games<\/strong><\/a>: No purchase necessary<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/vr\/the-metaverse-could-be-a-legendary-misadventure-meta-executive-says-if-reality-labs-doesnt-turn-things-around-in-2025\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta chief technology officer Andrew &#8220;Boz&#8221; Bosworth said in an internal memo shared with Business Insider that the company&#8217;s Reality Labs division needs to turn things around in a big way in 2025, or else its whole venture into mixed and virtual reality could go down as a &#8220;legendary misadventure.&#8221; Reality Labs has sunk tens of billions of dollars into VR development, but the technology has never broken through to &#8220;next big thing&#8221; status as once predicted. 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