{"id":987202,"date":"2026-01-22T11:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987202"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:52:27","slug":"meta-vr-exec-opens-up-after-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-cuts-his-dream-teams-budget-and-laid-off-1000-employees-can-tell-you-personally-that-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/22\/meta-vr-exec-opens-up-after-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-cuts-his-dream-teams-budget-and-laid-off-1000-employees-can-tell-you-personally-that-we\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta VR exec opens up after CEO Mark Zuckerberg cuts his dream team\u2019s budget and laid off 1000+ employees: Can tell you personally that we\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Meta executive broke his silence on the company&#8217;s VR future this week, directly addressing growing fears that the tech giant is abandoning virtual reality. Dilmer Valecillos, a Developer Advocate at Meta, jumped into a conversation on X to set the record straight: &#8220;I can tell you personally that we are not getting out of VR.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His comment came after VR content creator Matt voiced what many in the community were thinking\u2014that Meta&#8217;s recent layoffs and radio silence were raising serious red flags. Valecillos didn&#8217;t just offer empty reassurances. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Meta executive broke his silence on the company&#8217;s VR future this week, directly addressing growing fears that the tech giant is abandoning virtual reality. Dilmer Valecillos, a Developer Advocate at Meta, jumped into a conversation on X to set the record straight: &#8220;I can tell you personally that we are not getting out of VR.&#8221; His comment came after VR content creator Matt voiced what many in the community were thinking\u2014that Meta&#8217;s recent layoffs and radio silence were raising serious red flags. Valecillos didn&#8217;t just offer empty reassurances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}