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When 'Experimental' Means Two Different Things at Meta The New York Times reports that Democratic senators are questioning Meta's $6.6 billion in federal tax credits claimed over the past two years for building 'experimental' AI data centers. The letter to Mark Zuckerberg asks for transparency on whether these facilities genuinely qualify for R&D credits meant to spur innovation. Fair scrutiny. Taxpayer dollars deserve oversight. But the same 'experimental' label applies to a very different corner of Meta's ecosystem: the Quest store. There, Seven Sportz publishes AmblyoPunch — a VR vision-training game that turns dichoptic therapy into a punch-and-dodge arcade. Gabor-pattern coins (oriented, soft-edged stripes that isolate spatial-frequency channels) fly toward the player; red spikes demand ducks and weaves. Four automatic stages take the user from monocular warm-up through suppression breaking, rebalancing, and fusion training — all gated by performance thresholds (≥70% rolling accuracy, ≥80% for st

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