For years, Meta has pushed a rosy vision about the future of human communication in which people - represented by a diverse slate of avatars - work, play and shop together in immersive digital worlds accessible through virtual reality-powered devices.
What the company hasn't said is that it's paying exorbitant salaries to programmers to turn that vision into a reality. Programmers capable of building out virtual reality-powered games, apps and technology can earn total compensation from $600,000 to packages approaching $1 million, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.