Meta says it funded over 100 VR & mixed reality titles that shipped in 2024, as well as over 200 currently in “active production”. […] These figures were revealed today at GDC 2025 by Meta’s Director of Games Chris Pruett, during a talk where he also claimed that opening the store and heavily pushing Horizon Worlds did not meaningfully affect store spending, and revealed that monthly headset usage increased 30% in 2024.
Wild to think they’ve spent $100B on VR and for tons of people it’s probably still a “Beat Saber” machine. I mean, respect to Beat Saber.
Speaking of… Aside from socializing, rhythm, exercise, and sports seem like a reasonable niche market for VR. The Wii sure showed it was possible since it uses the same principles for the controls.
Like Musk, Zuckerberg is just trying to create a world where people actually like him.
Also like Musk, he will fail.
Musk is helping Meta through “at least Zuckerberg isn’t Musk” aura.
The Quest 2 and 3 finally are a properly viable platform that millions of people use, but it still feels like Meta doesn’t want it to be a “Microsoft’s Xbox” sort of situation, they still want it to be a “Google’s Android” situation instead. It’s been an utterly bizarre time watching all of this occur in real time as someone that bought her first headset in 2017; their priorities have always been completely misaligned with the achievements they’re actually making.
I have the Quest 2 before the rebrand. It was great, loved playing bowling with it, but they really do need move beyond being Daydream on steroids.
At least it’s something tangibly useful. Unlike “AI”. I’m for it.
Diversify from selling personal data
Unfortunately the VR is just another avenue for them to get data to sell
Useful from meta, sure buddy.
Meta sucks on the whole but I love my Quest 3.
Well, it is their money they are burning. Good luck with that.
Until Valve releases the Deckard, or whatever their next iteration VR hardware will be named, they’ll have to pry my Valve Index from my cold dead hands. No way in hell would i ever own anything from Meta/FB.
