Volume 10, Issue 4 Critical questions for Facebook’s virtual reality: data, power and the metaverse Ben Egliston, Queensland University of TechnologyMarcus Carter, University of Sydney PUBLISHED ON: 20 Dec 2021 DOI: 10.14763/2021.4.1610 Virtual reality—a central technology to Facebook’s metaverse ambitions—is a powerful digital sensor. But whose interests does it serve? KEYWORDS: Virtual reality, Critical Data Studies, Sensors, Power, Data, Social media