The metaverse project of Meta, the entity overseeing Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, should lose “significant” sums of money in the coming years, as confirmed by Mark Zuckerberg.
An ambitious but costly project
It is the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, who announces it: it is not tomorrow the day before that his metaverse project will be profitable. The businessman would have entrusted the information to his investors a few days ago, as reported by Bloomberg. It must be said that the metaverse project of Meta, if it presents an intriguing vision – it would be a question of an “integrated Internet”, letting users go about in a virtual world – could take between 10 and 15 years before becoming truly profitable. .
The fact is that this metaverse, to be appreciated, requires the use of a virtual reality headset. And right now, such products aren’t quite accessible yet, even though that’s one of Zuckerberg’s goals: “We want to make the hardware accessible to everyone, and make so that the digital economy grows. »
In 2021, Meta will have spent no less than 10 billion dollars to shape the design of its metaverse. 10,000 employees are currently working on this futuristic vision of the internet desired by Zuckerberg.
