{"id":172984,"date":"2023-09-28T16:29:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T21:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/mark-zuckerberg-cant-quit-the-metaverse"},"modified":"2023-09-28T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T21:29:28","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-cant-quit-the-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/mark-zuckerberg-cant-quit-the-metaverse","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg can\u2019t quit the metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mark-zuckerberg-cant-quit-the-metaverse2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI? VR? The term might just refer to whatever Meta is doing now.<\/p>\n<p>Almost two years ago, Mark Zuckerberg rebranded his company Facebook to Meta \u2014 and since then, he has been focused on building the \u201cmetaverse,\u201d a three-dimensional virtual reality. But the metaverse has lost some of its luster since 2021. Companies like Disney have closed down their metaverse divisions and deemphasized using the word, while crypto-based startup metaverses have quietly languished or imploded. In 2022, Meta\u2019s Reality Labs division reported an operational loss of $13.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>But at Meta Connect 2023, Zuckerberg still hasn\u2019t given up on the metaverse \u2014 he\u2019s just shifted how he talks about it. He once focused on\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Meta launches Quest 3 and continues to focus on the metaverse \u2014 even though the market isn\u2019t as positive. Zuckerberg shows a shift in his thinking about the concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI? VR? The term might just refer to whatever Meta is doing now. Almost two years ago, Mark Zuckerberg rebranded his company Facebook to Meta \u2014 and since then, he has been focused on building the \u201cmetaverse,\u201d a three-dimensional virtual reality. But the metaverse has lost some of its luster since 2021. Companies like Disney [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172984","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}