Metavselnaya and VR brought META a record loss of $ 5 billion over the last quarter

Meta✴ continues to lose billions of dollars in the development of virtual and augmented reality technologies necessary for creating a meta -shift, which was previously the general director Mark Zuckerberg) called one of the main projects of the company. The Reality Labs division engaged in the development of the metavselnaya recorded in the IV quarter of 2024, $ 4.97 billion operations with $ 1.1 billion revenue.

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According to Wall Street analysts, Reality Labs operating losses in the IV quarter of 2024 were supposed to amount to $ 5.497 billion with a revenue of $ 1.1 billion, CNBC writes. In total, according to the company, Reality Labs operating losses amounted to more than $ 60 billion since 2020.

Last week, META✴ said that in 2025 it invested from $ 60 to $ 65 billion in expanding its computing infrastructure related to artificial intelligence. Earlier, Tsuckerberg said that AI is the basis for the development of the company’s projects in the field of metavselnaya, including the production of Ray-Ban Meta✴ smart glasses, developed in collaboration with the French Essilorluxottica. In addition to Ray-Ban Meta✴, Reality Labs unit also produces quest virtual reality sets.

Last year, META✴ introduced the prototype of a complete reality headset Orion with AI support and the possibility of displaying holograms on top of the real field of view thanks to the use of miniature projectors. Tsuckerberg called Orion “The next large platform after smartphones.”