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They have Oakley's as well that they're kind of doing more for like workouts, which I think might be a really compelling real world use case for this category so far.

Overall, I think that Meta is going to be definitely if they can keep the innovation up, I think they'll be able to keep ahead of a lot of different people.

I would appreciate it so, so much.

It basically just helps more people find it.

The algorithm pushes out the show when people are leaving reviews.

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On Apple, you can leave a comment.

I read them all.

On Spotify, you hit the About tab and you can drop some stars.

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Over the last half of a decade, Meta has made an absolutely colossal investment into the quote-unquote metaverse, and it might finally be coming to an end as Meta is starting to focus more on AI and growth there, and it feels like the metaverse was a dream of Zuckerberg's that never really materialized.

All of this has happened as roughly 1,500 employees from the Reality Labs division have

are being laid off over at Facebook.

And there's a whole bunch of VR game studios that are getting shut down, according to a report over in the Wall Street Journal.

This is kind of like a dramatic moment, I think, for Meta, which was just, you know, four years ago, rebuilding its entire identity around the metaverse and everything going on there.

So today on the podcast, I want to break down where we are today, where we've come from, and how we arrived at this moment.

What's next?

Because I think what's next is even more exciting than getting lost in the metaverse for endless hours at a time.