- Mark Zuckerberg made another pitch for his metaverse this week, failing to placate investors.The company's annual developer conference Connect this week focused on the metaverse, envisioned by founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg as an immersive digital world that will displace the current iteration of the internet led by smartphones and personal computers."Captain Zuckerberg continues to steer the Meta ship towards an unknown path called the Metaverse and is determined to splurge billions and billions of dollars in an endeavor to reinvent itself," Campling said.He was not impressed by the various advances it showed off at Connect, like an upgraded Quest Pro headset, more expressive and photo realistic avatars (unavailable) and a version of avatars with legs (available sometime next year).Even John Carmack, the former chief technology officer of Oculus who advises Facebook on the metaverse and its headsets and is a booster of virtual-reality technology, acknowledged being "grumpy" during a talk at Connect about the company's rate of progress."