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Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made checks figures $440 million in return (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] exanime@lemmy.today 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

As others have said, the implication in this article's title is silly... Surely an r&d phase start easily explains this

What I'm curious about is how you spend that much money in such little time? Was that money actually spent or just committed?

[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

$1900 per second is a hell of a burn rate for anything outside the US military

[–] exanime@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago

indeed... you'd expect big bucks on the D part... new factory, going for mass production, etc... and even then, you can only build so fast