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Meta's Reality Labs posts $4.53 billion loss in second quarter (www.nbcdfw.com)

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Meta's Reality Labs, the unit tasked with building the futuristic metaverse, continues bleeding money.

The social media company reported its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday and revealed that Reality Labs logged an operating loss of $4.53 billion while recording $370 million in sales during the period. Analysts were projecting that unit to post a second-quarter operating loss of $4.99 billion while generating $381 million in sales.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Displays gradually improve since like forever, if you want a specific one that doesn't exist you can calculate roughly when it will exist at a specific price point.

Long haul video game devs did that with GPUs for example.

Guess someone has to throw cash at it, but still...

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah. I'm not mad that he's throwing cash at it, outside of the immense amount of good that that amount of money could do for people, instead of being hoarded and wasted on impatience.

They're a good ways past the ROI plateau and need to get the displays into the wild before people can figure out how how to make them better (not to mention the literal lab research that's still needed to figure out how to make the tech competitive in functionality with birdbath which is multiple orders of magnitude cheaper and superior in nearly every way).