Recently Zuckerberg seem to be cutting up to 30 per cent in the Reality Labs division that handles Metaverse technology. Investors cheered this decision since it will boost the capital commitments to build AI infrastructure. Meta’s share rose by 4 per cent. Wall Street seems to have welcomed the cut in metaverse.
Metaverse has sucked up $71 billion since 2021, with nothing impressive to show. Some headsets which open up metaverse were made available in the later part of 2025. Horizon Worlds was imagined as a virtual place to live and hang out. It is a desolate place.
Meta’ s thinking changed on account of two developments. First Apple’s entry into this space failed. Secondly, the Ray Ban smart glasses where Meta has 3 per cent stake in EssilorfLuxoticca, the manufacturer. It made Meta to see the scope of cutting back the R&D spending Meta can afford to move away from metaverse and could focus on smart glasses. Here too Meta’s priority was full-fledged multi-featured headsets. Instead, the market wants a pair of glasses looking like ordinary goggles. A time will come when the same glasses attain full mixed reality — the metaverse. Intelligence will be treated as a new design material.
Meta would like to acquire Limitless, a company making wearable pendant that records and interprets conversations.
Zuckerberg would like to work on metaverse using AI cover and some wearables. He has not fully given up the metaverse dream. Zuckerberg is interested in the sci-fi world out there, and would like to reach there.
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