Neal Freiman

The MetaQuest headset sales were down 16% year over year from 2024 to 2025.

The overall industry has declined for the last three years.

Apple rolled out this $3,500 Vision Pro headset a few years ago.

It's scaling back production.

So no company has nailed this yet.

And it's very unclear going forward whether consumers want to put those goggles on and be completely immersed in a world whether there's legs or not.

It is just, you know, Mark Zuckerberg is the face of the metaverse and the metaverse flopping.

But I'm glad that you mentioned that McKinsey said it was going to be a $5 trillion opportunity by 2030.

Satya Nadella, who is Microsoft's CEO also at that time, said the metaverse is here.

It's not only transforming how we see the world, but how we participate in it.

Microsoft did shut down its own metaverse division in 2023, laid off its entire metaverse team.

So everyone back then, I don't know, we had to open the schools.

Ooh, his critics were grabbing their torches and pitchforks that he wants to raise.

This is one of the richest people on the planet to raise $100 billion to automate human jobs and replace human jobs with robots.

But obviously, he's going to spend other people's money and not his if they'll give it to him.

A lot of the older guard of Silicon Valley, as Wall Street Journal pointed out, is really interested in this concept of using AI on the physical world, on industrial manufacturing.

Travis Kalanick, who was the Uber co-founder, recently announced what his venture is.

It's called Atoms, and it's a vision to transform manufacturing industries with AI, something that Bezos is also interested in.

in elon musk is pivoting tesla to be a robot company so this particular old guard of silicon value came of age in the in the 2010s is really really interested in raising tons of money to use ai on the physical world up next if anyone was looking forward to the new season of the bachelorette coming this sunday toby looking at you it's not going to happen anymore in a last minute twist abc pulled the upcoming season after video emerged of its star taylor frankie paul

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