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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes and?

Facebook was marketing their virtual office space stuff during covid. In the infinite wisdom of Zuck, that's the best use of the tech today.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My point is ...what was the plan before COVID? What did VR have to do with social networking?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago

Second life!! /sj

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

I don't think he had a plan in the beginning. These people aren't pioneers. They got lucky once, get labeled as a trend setter and then you have to try and maintain that image. VR was going the next big thing, so Zuck bought a company without a plan. Tech companies do that all the time. They see themselves falling behind on something and just buy some random company to appease the shareholders/press.

The VR office thing was just the limits of Zuck own creativity and saw covid as an opportunity to keep their product relevant.