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Metaverse or ‘Doom’verse? Lack of clear use-case dampens prospects
The year 2023 has not started well for Meta. Its Metaverse division, Reality Labs, suffered a USD 13.7 billion loss in 2022, up from USD 10.2 billion in 2021. Meta itself saw a USD 251 billion devaluation on 2nd February 2023 – a record single day loss in US history.