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Why did the Metaverse hype die down

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Because it never solved a problem people actually had. Meta has now lost close to $88 billion on Reality Labs since 2021 — more than the GDP of many countries. The original goal was 500,000 monthly active users on Horizon Worlds by the end of that year; the real number stayed under 200,000, and mos…

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