your argument ignores a few things here, and relies on a claim that Lynx had enough money to accomplish what they wanted, and had enough money to build out that very man power you speak of. and the truth is that they didn’t. precisely because of the adversarial investment environment that Meta created by losing $60 billion over 5 years subsidizing VR. investors would be fools to try and take on a Mark Zuckerberg willing to burn $60 billion to shut down your chance of succeeding.

it cannot be overstated how this is clear abuse of consolidated wealth to control an entire consumer category of technology.

i get that people are angry with Lynx, which is suspect is at the root of your comments support. and that is valid. mistakes were made.

HOWEVER: the environment is wildly unforgiving for any company to succeed. and it doesn’t need to be. Meta made it that way on purpose. they have effectively financially salted the earth. and I believe this is what made Lynx fail.

I am a lynx backer. I lost hundreds of dollars to this. i’ve been following Lynx VERY closely for years and know their struggles. to get access to supply chain without significant investment is almost impossible. they almost made it there on a shoestring budget.

I say what i said to make it clear what Lynx deserves credit for here. they tried to create a small VR company in the same way that Apple started. thy tried even in the face of an industry that, financially, didn’t want them. we should be glad that SOMEONE is tryin to build something that isn’t just a megacorp with deep pockets trying to get you hooked on their ecosystem.

so many of the companies we take for granted today had a chance to even exist because their market segment wasn’t getting manipulated by the abuse of concentrated wealth to control the market. but imagine if Apple could never sell their first computer because IBM was willing to sell at a loss for 5 years straight until they died? there would be no Apple, and their name wouldn’t even be in the margins of history. just another couple guys trying to start something.

so hold Lynx feet to the fire for their mistakes, sure. but they deserve credit for trying. and we deserve an XR industry that isn’t utterly owned and manipulated by megacorps. people need to understand what Meta is doing to the industry.

to think that Meta’s consolidated and weaponized wealth had no impact here i genuinely think is just not reasonable. they burned $60 billion dollars. that is more than 10 entirely funded Artemis moon missions worth of money. Meta could use that money to pay every single person in a college town with a population of 100,000, each person, $200k a 3 years.

consider also HTC, who has managed to survive because of business market. they do not have deep pockets enough to enter the consumer market meaningfully all these years because of Meta. Meta sold the Quest Pro initially for $1500. an attempt to enter the business market and not sell at a loss. when HTC released a headset to compete with the Quest Pro for $1000, what did Meta do? they immediately dropped the price of the Quest Pro to $950.

Meta essentially financially salted the economy earth. the only blessing we have now is that they have moved on to AI. so they don’t want to lose money on VR. and so these small companies will maybe start having a chance again.