It’s been a busy week for Meta. On Monday, This is what Mark Zuckerberg announces via Facebook that Meta would launch horizon worlds, the company’s Metaverse social platform, in France and Europe. The Facebook post was accompanied by an image of Zuckerberg’s avatar with the pale, blank stare of a Victorian ghost taking a selfie in front of simple renderings of the Eiffel Tower and the Basílica de la Sagrada Família. Commentators and netizens afterwards immersed in the picture evoke the cartoon graphics throughout the week. Probably not the desired response to a project that’s meant to be herald the digital future.
On Friday, Mark Zuckerberg shared an update on this horizon worlds, complete with a new version of his avatar and a rendering of an ancient Rome-style setting. In the post, he admitted, “The photo I posted earlier this week was pretty straightforward — it was taken very quickly to celebrate the launch.” Zuckerberg added horizon worlds is “capable of much more”.
In these pictures it is does To look better. This time there is light and his avatar’s face has a genuine expression. It still doesn’t exactly look like a place worth spending time in, but I guess it’s all in the eye of the beholder.
horizon worlds is available on Quest VR headsets. It grown to 300,000 users in the first two months after launch in December 2021 and in February the horizon worlds The Twitter account posted this more than 10,000 worlds were created – although Meta wasn’t aware of that how it intends to moderate the growing platform.
Meta is currently expanding horizon worlds offers, incl Bring it to cell phones. horizon worlds Also Introducing “In-World Purchases” for a “handful” of developers, which would make it more like Roblox. By the way, Zuckerberg’s initial horizon worlds image looked a lot like this particular gaming platform aimed at children.
