Horizon Worlds was presented as a first glimpse of the metaverse as imagined by Meta (formerly Facebook). However, to date, this platform seems to have trouble being appreciated, even by its own developers. This problem could be explained by bugs that are present in the platform, according to internal documents consulted by The Verge.
Last month, Meta’s vice president in charge of the metaverse, Vishal Shah, sent various memos to the group’s employees. According to these memos, Horizon Worlds was disappointing its own designers. As a reminder, this social platform represents the first version of the metaverse of the multinational in virtual reality.
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Too many flaws detract from the experience on the platform
A memo dated September 30 reveals that Meta will require its employees to visit Horizon Worlds weekly . The Verge reported that all employees of the company should :
[…] Make it your mission to fall in love with Horizon Worlds and it won’t happen without using it […].
This document also reveals a lack of cooperation and communication between the divisions of the Menlo Park multinational .
In addition, Vishal Shal had acknowledged in a note on September 15, 2022 that Horizon Worlds was crawling with bugs. He had pointed out that several members of his team, testers, users and creators have also discovered :
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- Stability concerns ;
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- An accumulation of cuts.
Problems that alter the experience that the social platform offers to its community. The leader then insisted on the need to focus primarily on the quality of the platform . For the rest of the year, he added, the division harnessed to Meta’s metaverse would remain in quality containment. The executive explained that this will allow them to :
Ensure we fix our quality deficiencies and performance issues before opening Horizon to more users.
A web version will be launched soon
These revelations appeared shortly before the Meta Connect. The conference of the Californian group in which it unveils its projects and strategies on the plan of virtual and augmented reality. At this event, the company should also present its action plan for the future of the metaverse . Its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, intends on this point to disclose the advances that his collaborators have made. This from the point of view of the graphics of Horizon Worlds.
This platform gives its visitors the opportunity to build and discuss with other people in virtual worlds. It is an important initiative after the Facebook boss renamed his company to Meta. To develop its vision of the metaverse, the multinational invests billions of dollars every year . Horizon Worlds has been deployed on the helmet Quest of the group :
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- In August 2022 in france ;
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- In June 2022 in the United Kingdom ;
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- In December 2021 in Canada and the United States.
It exceeded 300,000 users in January 2022 and should soon be available on :
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- Desktop computers ;
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- Smartphones.
A web version of the multiplayer platform is indeed in preparation. However, Vishal Shah’s memos suggest that the arrival of this one may be delayed .