Meta虚拟现实部门硬件和元宇宙拆分 部分员工被裁

据 The Verge 报道，科技巨头 Meta 日前宣布正在对其虚拟现实部门 Reality Labs 进行拆分，分为包括 Quest 商业业务的“元宇宙”小组以及一个包括其硬件开发计划的“可穿戴设备”小组。

According to The Verge, the tech giant Meta announced that it was breaking down its virtual reality Labs into a “metacos” group that included Quest commercial operations and a “wearable equipment” group that included its hardware development programme.

作为重组的一部分，该公司裁减了部分员工。报道声称“相对来说少量”的员工被解雇，其中包括虚拟现实部门的一些领导层。自 2022 年末以来，Meta 已经裁员了超过 2 万人。

As part of the reorganization, the company reduced some of its employees. The report states that “relatively few” employees have been dismissed, including some of the leadership of the virtual reality sector. Meta has been downsized by more than 20,000 people since late 2022.

Meta 首席技术官 Andrew Bosworth 发布的一份内部通告称，此次重组将使得 Meta 能够创建“跨硬件、软件的更集成产品体验，以及更少摩擦和碎片化的体验”。

According to an internal circular issued by the Chief Technical Officer of Meta Andrew Bosworth, this reorganization will enable Meta to create “a more integrated product experience across hardware, software, and less friction and fragmentation”.

他写道：“随着 Quest 3 将混合现实（MR）引入主流，我们终于感觉所有的主要组件已经就位，可以持续发展我们的软件平台。”

He wrote: "As Quest 3 brought mixed reality (MR) into the mainstream, we finally felt that all the main components were in place and that we could continue to develop our software platforms."

“我们正在将混合现实团队引入由 Vishal Shah 领导的元宇宙产品部门，并重新调整组件，使其更加横向而不是纵向结构。我们坚定地致力于投资 Horizon（地平线，Meta 的元宇宙平台），将其作为我们社交、空间 Horizon OS 的核心基础以及混合现实和移动设备的高质量体验。”

“We are introducing the hybrid reality team into the meta-cosmos product sector, led by Vishal Shah, and realigning the components to make them more horizontal than vertical. We are firmly committed to investing in Horizon as the core foundation of our socialization, space-based Horizon OS, and a high-quality experience of hybrid reality and mobile devices.”

Bosworth 还声称，该公司的雷朋 Meta 智能眼镜设备“比预期的要受欢迎得多”。他表示，这一成功与 Meta AI 的现有功能相结合，“甚至在完整的增强现实（AR）愿景准备就绪之前，就已经从我们正在构建的产品中创造了更多价值。”

Bosworth also claimed that the company's Reuben Meta smartglass equipment was “better than expected.” He said that this success was combined with the current functions of Meta AI, “even before the complete reality enhancement (AR) vision was ready, it had created more value from the product that we were building.”

实际上，Meta 的虚拟现实部门至今仍在持续亏损。根据公司本财年第一季度的财报，该部门亏损 38 亿美元，并且在 2022 和 2023 年它亏损了 137 亿和 161 亿美元。

In fact, Meta’s virtual reality sector continues to lose. According to the company’s financial statements for the first quarter of the year, the sector lost $3.8 billion, and in 2022 and 2023 it lost $13.7 billion and $16.1 billion.