Meta has shipped six VR headsets in seven years. Only one has been an obvious success.
The company sold 20 million Quest headsets, mostly the Quest 2, as shelter-in-place adults tried to escape their homes (and babysit preteens!) during the early pandemic. Since then, Meta’s struggled to justify why it rebranded its entire company around the metaverse — a concept it’s only now just barely beginning to deliver in any intriguingly tangible way.
Tomorrow, as Meta tries to sell you a $500…