META LAYS OFF THOUSANDS OF VR WORKERS AS ZUCKERBERG’S VISION FAILS After years of failing to produce a profitable augmented reality platform, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is pounding one of the final nails into the coffin of its metaverse efforts — the ones that were once so central to its vision that it renamed the entire company after them. This we: ek, the Wall Street Journal reported Meta was laying off some 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division, the department working on Meta’s virtual reality products. As part of the layoffs, three VR game studios were shuttered, though Horizon Worlds — Meta’s online VR game platform — is still running, per IGN, albeit in a diminished capacity. Full article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/meta-lays-off-thousands-of-vr-workers-as-zuckerberg-s-vision-fails/ar-AA1UrESc?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=696d216d91a9426e866ca009ac08aef6&ei=77(FXHedge)