That was why this Article was going to be easy: writing that Meta’s metaverse wasn’t very compelling would slot right in to most people’s mental models, prompting likes and retweets instead of skeptical emails arguing that Meta should focus on its core business would appeal to shareholders concerned about the money and attention devoted to a vision they feared was unrealistic. The concerning part from the keynote was you could see why.

What was particularly concerning was the entire first half of the keynote, which was primarily focused on consumer applications, including Horizon Worlds Horizon Worlds was the the app The Verge reported was so buggy that Meta employees working on it barely used it, or more worryingly, was buggy because Meta employees couldn’t be bothered to dogfood it. Sure, the new Quest Pro looked cool, and I was very excited about the partnership with Microsoft (more on both in a moment) the presentation, though, was cringe, and seemed to lack any compelling demos of virtual reality. This weekend the easy way seemed within reach: I watched Meta’s Connect Keynote (I had early access in order to prepare for an interview with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella) and was, like apparently much of the Internet, extremely underwhelmed. There is an easy to way to write this Article, and a hard way.

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