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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Facebook beware the metaverse is really flat | History Defined

A visitor plays a video game witha Meta Quest 2 virtual reality (VR) headset at the Tokyo Game Show 2022 in Chiba, Japan on Sept 15. Bloomberg

In a few weeks' time, Mark Zuckerberg will announce a new virtual reality headset from Meta Platforms.

Embarrassingly, we already know what it will look like. A video of the purported device has been doing the rounds online after someone found one in a hotel room. Yet none of that should matter because whizzy VR headsets are becoming too much of a distraction, and aren't that integral to the early growth of the so-called metaverse, a 3D version of the internet that many see as its next chapter. It turns out flat screens are doing the job just fine.

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