Facebook’s pivot to the metaverse continues to be messy. Meta’s Reality Labs division, dwelling to its {hardware} efforts and different metaverse initiatives, shall be chopping a few of its tasks, in accordance to Reuters. It’s not clear which tasks shall be affected, however Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth reportedly informed staff the corporate is now not in a position to afford among the work it had as soon as deliberate, and another tasks shall be “postponed.”

The information is the newest to blow to Meta’s bold plan to re-orient the corporate round digital actuality and the metaverse moderately than its social community. The firm misplaced on Reality Labs in 2021, and plans to rent in 2022 than in earlier years.

At the identical time, the corporate is seemingly nonetheless plugging away at , the “high-end” VR headset anticipated this fall. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg new particulars on “color passthrough technology” for the gadget that might “enable developers to build a whole new level of mixed reality experiences.” The firm additionally simply opened its first bodily outdoors of the headquarters for Reality Labs.