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I never loved Horizon worldsMeta’s best attempt to create a social world for its virtual reality headsets. In fact, I avoided it completely. So I’m not at all surprised by that He says dead now It will refocus Horizon Worlds on mobile games similar to Roblox.
Is the Metaverse dead? No, because the metaverse isn’t just meta: it’s abstract Choose the philosophical term. But the company’s biggest investment in virtual worlds turned out to be a failure. And that’s just “the tip of the iceberg” that Meta is doing now, as it tries to turn its VR efforts into a win with future AR headsets.
I was Somewhat astonished With Meta’s series of moves seeming to be abandoning VR over the past few months, which have included closing its top VR game studio acquisitions, killing off its best and most innovative VR fitness platform (also an acquisition), and ending attempts to turn its VR platform into a software tool for the business.
Samantha Kelly, Meta’s new head of Reality Labs content, admitted in a new blog post that VR hasn’t been the big seller Meta expected, echoing what happened recently Data From Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth. Although VR headsets will still be around in the future, according to Meta, the company will rely on third-party apps and games to sell headsets instead.
Now we’ll move away from trying to make Horizon Worlds the centerpiece of Quest VR.
Meta’s Quest headsets have always been geared toward low-priced gaming and fun, but Meta is pulling back on other pieces of the puzzle in favor of high-end glasses.
This is a cosmic joke to me, considering that, so far, Meta has wasted no effort trying to bury game developers’ apps by spamming its operating system with links to Horizon Worlds. The Meta’s Quest app on phones went Horizon branded and tried to hide the app’s content in favor of the weirder social experiences in Horizon Worlds as well.
while Task 3 and 3S Still Best virtual reality headsets for the moneyI have no idea what the future holds for these systems. At every turn, I see Mark Zuckerberg and Meta announcing a full-blown AI push Smart glasses. Meanwhile, the AI inside the Quest headsets barely showed up in any meaningful way.
Meta has always split its VR ambitions between day-to-day work and kid-focused gaming. He got the latter, not the former. It became a kids’ console, even though Meta tried to keep the kids away. As a result, I don’t think anyone took the mission seriously as anything that could be used for anything other than gaming. It seems that Meta is no longer dead.
Ray-Ban’s current Meta displays only have a single display, and the apps on them are much more basic than those on any VR headset.
So what now, Mita?
The Meta’s next steps look like they will still be focused on VR a bit, but I think it will be a bridge to headsets. The smaller headset is expected to be released sometime next year as an attempt to focus on portability and HD video to compete with it. Display glasses, Apple Vision headphones and Samsung Galaxy XR (Or until the next valve Steam frame).
However, this shift may signal the end of supported gaming hardware, causing prices to rise. It could also mean that Meta’s VR is focused on showcasing immersive movies and games rather than building a full computing world — or at least one that requires such extensive custom software.
While Meta continues to try to create advanced AR glasses at some point down the road, its glasses are slowly adding displays and apps, but the software is in the works. Ray-Ban displays Embryonic and primitive. It’s not like VR, and I have no idea when AR glasses will come around.
Meta’s moonshot, the prototype of augmented reality glasses Orionit needed a separate processing disk to work. This is basically a similar idea to the upcoming Xreal and Google idea Hala Project A set of glasses, which also uses a dial. But the difference between Google and Meta is that Google plans to eventually put the processing on next-gen phones to power these augmented reality glasses. Meta doesn’t have the ability to do this, because it’s held back by Google and Apple.
Meta’s concept for the next generation of AR glasses, Orion, shown in 2024, is based on a processor disc.
Then what? Unlike Apple, Google, and Samsung, Meta doesn’t have its own mobile platform. The glasses will work with phones. This will be a bottleneck for the Meta, no matter how many times you try to modify the vision of the metaverse and the device. VR headsets may have been a way to try to get around phones, but when it comes to glasses, there’s no getting around it.
I don’t see how Horizon Worlds will be so popular as another mobile gaming app in a world full of Roblox look-alikes. As I said about the meta decision Destroying the Supernatural fitness appWhat pieces does Meta have to push its glasses that will really be ready to compete with what Google, and potentially Apple, will bring — fitness, app connectivity, media, mapping, future car integration and everything else?
As the Meta seems more willing to abandon much of what it has tried to build in VR, I wonder if it will realize that the glasses are not yet ready, application-wise, to continue the journey on the other side. Even if the goal is to rely heavily on artificial intelligence to do so.