Facebook’s ‘immersive’ VR ads are the capitalist hell no one asked for

The Next Web
By Thomas MacaulayJun 17, 2021, 8:49 am96 pts
VR can provide an immersive escape from the mundane. But there’s one thing it won’t let you escape from for much longer: advertising. Facebook announced on Wednesday that it will soon start testing ads inside Oculus headsets — despite the VR brand’s founder once promising that it would never happen.…

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