Facebook, beware: The metaverse is flat

In the coming weeks, Mark Zuckerberg will announce a new virtual reality headset from Meta Platforms Inc.

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.