Meta’s Reality Labs Reports $3.6 Billion In Losses, When Will It End?
Meta (formerly Facebook) officially declared its entry into the metaverse space last year with the Reality Labs division. Its announcement had understandably triggered the popularity of metaverse projects and their tokens during this time, as a lot went on to rally to billions of dollars in market cap. However, while Meta had been able to trigger positive growth for other metaverse projects, it has been unable to do so for itself as it reports another quarter of massive losses. Meta’s Reality Labs Records Losses Since Meta’s entry into the space via its Reality Labs division, the tech....
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Meta’s Reality Labs division posted a $2.9 billion loss in Wednesday’s Q1 earnings call but Zuckerberg remains optimistic about future profitability from the metaverse. Meta Platforms Inc., formerly known as Facebook Inc., posted its Q1 2022 earnings on Wednesday, with its Metaverse-focused Reality Labs division posting increased losses.The Reality Labs division — formerly known as Facebook’s Oculus division — has been spending increasing sums of capital on developing virtual reality and metaverse-related products, posting a $2.9 billion loss for Q1 2022. That's 61% more than its $1.8....
Meta, the social media company, has reported that its metaverse division, the Reality Labs Unit, is shedding lots of money. In its recent earnings call, the company informed that, while the Reality Labs unit managed to pull more than $400 million in sales, its losses reached $2.8 billion, mainly due to research and development costs associated with metaverse and VR products.
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“This is obviously a very expensive undertaking over the next several years,” said Mark Zuckerberg. Meta’s virtual reality (VR) and metaverse division Reality Labs has posted its seventh straight quarter of losses, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg remains steadfast in investing in the technology, which he calls a "massive opportunity.During Meta’s Q2 earnings call on July 27, Zuckerberg acknowledged that such losses could continue for several more years until VR applications and its Metaverse platform are mature enough to tap into the “massive opportunity” worth “hundreds of billions of dollars”....
The tech giant is just over $500 million away from topping its more than $10 billion Metaverse department losses in 2021, but it said its spending will only grow next year. Big Five technology player Meta is still burning cash through its Metaverse research and development arm Reality Labs with a $3.67 billion loss posted for the third quarter of 2022, stating those losses will further deepen next year.The company’s Q3 2022 earnings released on Oct. 26 show the biggest-ever quarterly losses for Reality Labs from earnings dating back to the fourth quarter of 2020, the business also made....
The performance of Meta Platforms during the second quarter of this year was not merely disappointing for Facebook. It is the first time the social media giant has experienced a massive drop in annual income. The company reported on Thursday that its segment, called Reality Labs, which focuses on the metaverse experienced quarterly losses of $2.81 billion. […]