Meta isn't shutting down its VR metaverse
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You might have heard the term “metaverse” for the first time only in 2020. That’s when it became an omnipresent word in ecommerce and social media. And yes, it’s no coincidence that last year Facebook officially changed its name to Meta, making it ...
As The Verge also notes, the section on metaverse browsers is heavily redacted, but it does hint towards a few things, including the fact that they “have the primary purpose of allowing the navigation and exploration of metaverse worlds” and “support virtual items and identity that are portable across different worlds in the metaverse browser.”
Did you know that tens of billions of dollars worth of goods were sold in the metaverse in 2023, including fashion clothing? I want you to imagine a shopping experience that sounds like the stuff of a sci-fi story but is available to consumers with today ...
The decision effectively ends the role of Horizon Worlds as a dedicated VR social destination, where users interacted via digital avatars in virtual worlds.