This post is a bit ambiguous. Apologies if it's not appropriate for this sub.
There is a lot of interest in Meta right now. This sub seems to have several each day. The focus is always on the metaverse. But one thing has been on my mind that hasn't gotten a lot of attention. Their R&D spend for VR is massive and it isn't just a matter of working through complexity.
There are really hard problems that have to be solved. The hardware has to be optimized, the computational geometry and graphics algorithms have to render graphics faster and more efficiently, networking problems. I'm not an expert in this space so I can't enumerate the fields involved or speak to the details of each, but it's a monumental challenge.
What will be the applications along the way that could drive new innovations in adjacent or even unexpected industries?
A similar effect happened with cell phones and drones. The accelerometers for phones needed to get much better to do what developers wanted. A consequence was that a critical area for drones got a huge influx of R&D that might not have happened otherwise.
Smart people work at Meta. If there's a problem that has far reaching impact someone will act on it and Meta could end up with tech that becomes an unexpected cash cow.
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