![]() Horizon Worlds is essentially a giant, VR chatroom where you can hang out with friends and play minigames, but often it’s just perusing virtual worlds with strangers, or no one at all, as many corners remain completely empty. Essentially that is the metaverse part of Meta’s metaverse plans. And the things they are developing in-house are the different bits of the Horizon platform, where Horizon Worlds is meant to be the social network, for the entire metaverse. But again, unlike Nintendo or Sony, Meta is not directly producing any of its own video games for VR, relying on outside developers. Meta Connect actually barely spent any time talking about actual video games, just rattling off a couple of games that have mad decent money through the Quest ecosystem. So while sure, Zuckerberg can bring on Accenture and Microsoft to talk about the potential of business metaverse use, there’s a big gap between “you can meet up and do work in the metaverse” and anyone actually.wanting to do that. Then you have to actually get people to use it, something that Meta itself cannot even convince its own employees to do, as leaked internal documents show that execs had to essentially mandate that teams spend time in the metaverse and host meetings there, because no one was doing it of their own volition. The problem, of course, is that it has yet to produce any meaningful proof that it’s better or more engaging than a simple Zoom meeting in most cases.įor starters, if your company wants to meet up in the metaverse, you have to spend money to give every employee you want there an actual VR headset, a luxury purchase by any definition of the term. ![]() A huge part of Zuckerberg’s pitch has been trying to make the metaverse a place for virtual business, especially in this current work from home era.
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