Meta keeps trying to invent the future. It hasn’t worked yet

CNN — Facebook kickstarted the modern social media age in the early 2000s. Tesla flaunted its humanoid Optimus robot at last year’s Cybercab launch event, and chipmaker Nvidia announced new AI tech designed to power robots at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. Waiting for the metaverse to happen Meta’s biggest effort to move beyond Facebook came in 2021 when it rebranded itself as Meta to orient the company around the “metaverse,” a broad term for digital communal spaces typically in virtual reality. Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters But Meta’s latest expansion into consumer hardware with its Ray-Ban smart glasses shows promise. It’s all part of Meta’s mission to make the name “Meta” mean something other than just social media apps.