Amazon Exec LOLs at Zuckerberg's Make-Believe Metaverse

Amazon's head of devices took a jab at Meta on Thursday, saying the company is working on enhancing a virtual world that will entice people to neglect the real world.

I want to work on technologies that bring people's heads up, get them to enjoy the real world about them, and make the family a more communal experience. He noted that if he asked the audience what they thought the Metaverse was, he would get different answers.

You don't kick a horse while it's down, but people from the tech industry keep dunking on Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse as his company bleeds money, and its stock continues to plummet.

The company formerly known as Facebook invested over $10 billion in the Metaverse, but its shares fell 26% this year. No one really understands what the Metaverse is, despite the best efforts of Facebook to sell people on it being their future.

This isn't the first time a tech executive has derided the concept of the Metaverse. Evan Spiegel, the CEO of the company, called the Metaverse "ambiguous and hypothetical." His company refused to use the word around their offices. In an interview with the Guardian in April, Spiegel said, "Just ask a room of people how to define it, and everyone's definition is totally different."

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It's true. You can find different definitions by searching the term for yourself. It is a virtual world, most can agree on that, and it combines virtual reality, augmented reality, and social media to create a sort of digital, three-dimensional version of the internet.

Meta is banking on this virtual world as its flagship social network loses users. The president of global affairs at Meta wrote a lengthy post on Wednesday titled, " Making the Metaverse: What it is, how it will be built, and why it matters."

The word "metaverse" implies you are transported to another universe. It's inherent in using some of these technologies to get away from it all. The metaverse is more than that, and it is about finding more ways to benefit from the online world.

Maybe when the company gets a better grasp on what they want the Metaverse to be, that will translate to their users. It is far too conceptual and irrelevant for now.