Reggie Fils-Aime is n’t impressed with the company formerly known as Facebook, or its idea of the metaverse. He lobbed a few fireballs in Mark Zuckerberg’s direction during an interview with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang at South by Southwest.

Fils-amie defines the metaverse as a digital space where you interact with your friends in a social and gaming type of environment. He says that Roblox is an example of something where elements of the metaverse already exist.

I do n’t think that their current definition is going to be successful,’ says Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook itself is not an innovative company, says Zuckerberg.

Fils-amie says meta has acquired interesting things, like Instagram, or they’ve been a fast follower of other people’s ideas.

I do n’t think that [ VR ] is ready for prime time yet,’ he said. He said he does n’t believe that it’s going to be an experience that you’re doing 100 % of your time, or even 100 percent of your entertainment time’.

He sees people using augmented reality throughout the day to interact with their digital worlds and friends. He also sees people still being present in the physical world.

Fils-amie said the all-time sales for VR devices were around 20 million in total. He said that under his watch, that would’ve made a good single year of hardware sales at Nintendo.