Meta says new study shows the metaverse could boost the global economy by $3.6 trillion per year and yes it probably is worth noting Meta paid for the research

Mark Zuckerberg's digital face on a digital dollar

By a staggering turn of events, research has forecast that the metaverse and its surrounding VR and AR technologies will one day overtake mobile phones as the primary platform for computing. That's according to a study paid for by none other than, you guessed it, Meta. 

Yeah, feels a bit harder to take it seriously when the company paying for the study has so much skin in the game.