My kneejerk reaction is that some projects with "meta" in the name might get into legal troubles out of the blue.

Legal trouble having nothing to do with the law itself but legal budgets.

What about facebook getting into legal trouble here? There is tons of prior art and companies with the trademark. Either facebook buys them all, or find another name

All depends if they can deliver on AR before anyone else.

Gotta remember outside of Oculus, their entire product portfolio exists on top of the platforms of their competitors. This is their play to own the entire thing from the foundation up and the resources they'll be willing to use to accomplish that will be huge and really their only competition is Apple because Google gave up.

> All depends if they can deliver on AR before anyone else.

Nope. It matters only if the gain wide adoption before anyone else. If they do, they become the de facto owner of that space.

They definitely have the resources to do that.

For real. This is the least "incredibly scary" thing I can think of.

admittedly it s a much better investment of their money than investing in spying tech. The Quest is really great product