Apple, on the other hand, has been offering bonuses ranging between $50,000 and $180,000 as well as enticing stock options to its employees to keep a hold of them. Engineers in silicon design as well as hardware and software operations workers are among the specific groups that have been at the receiving end of these benefits since late December of last year. Facebook's rebranding into Meta was a signal that screamed the company's ambitions to move beyond the social media sphere and into the emerging sector. Reality Labs, its virtual reality business, has significantly been busy following the renaming and they have already successfully developed a prototype for their VR "haptic gloves" in the middle of November 2021. Of course, the company has also received some notable backlash in its attempt to seemingly dominate the nascent Metaverse. Leaders from within the crypto, NFT, blockchain, and GameFi communities have been among the most vocal about their concerns surrounding Meta's goals.