{"id":148038,"date":"2022-10-12T15:25:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/mark-zuckerberg-sets-expectations-for-his-new-1500-metaverse-gadget-at-rock-bottom"},"modified":"2022-10-12T15:25:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:25:28","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-sets-expectations-for-his-new-1500-metaverse-gadget-at-rock-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/mark-zuckerberg-sets-expectations-for-his-new-1500-metaverse-gadget-at-rock-bottom","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg sets expectations for his new $1,500 metaverse gadget at rock bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mark-zuckerberg-sets-expectations-for-his-new-1500-metaverse-gadget-at-rock-bottom2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23397187\/mark-zuckerberg-quest-pro-metaverse-interview-decoder\" target=\"_blank\">interview published Tuesday with The Verge<\/a>, Zuckerberg said VR, the technology he bet his entire $340 billion company on a year ago, is entering \u201cthe trough of disillusionment.\u201d That\u2019s a term folks in the tech industry like to use when excitement around a new technology drastically wanes.<\/p>\n<p>His comments effectively place expectations for the success of the new Meta Quest Pro, which goes on sale Oct. 25, at next to zero. At the same time, Zuckerberg reiterated his belief that the metaverse will be the next iteration of computing after the smartphone \u2014 it\u2019s just going to take a long time. Specifically, he told The Verge \u201cit\u2019s not going to be until later this decade\u201d when metaverse gadgets like the Quest Pro will be \u201cfully mature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Meta isn\u2019t selling headsets later this decade. It\u2019s selling them now, and expecting technologists and software developers to invent compelling reasons to buy one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview published Tuesday with The Verge, Zuckerberg said VR, the technology he bet his entire $340 billion company on a year ago, is entering \u201cthe trough of disillusionment.\u201d That\u2019s a term folks in the tech industry like to use when excitement around a new technology drastically wanes. His comments effectively place expectations for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}