When Facebook acquired VR headset maker and Kickstarter darling Oculus in 2014 for $2 billion, the internet just about lost its damn mind. Former backers screamed boycott, Minecraft maker Markus Persson pulled back on plans to port the popular title to the platform, and the Farmville VR jokes practically wrote themselves.
Flash forward to the present day, and the only creatures on this Earth with more egg on their faces are chicken embryos. Now rebranded as Meta, the company that lured Oculus away from creator Palmer Luckey has turned his vision into a reality and then some.
