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According to the internal message of Meta, Meta's meta-universe flagship VR application Horizon World has too many program problems, and even the team that built it did not use it too much. In order to improve the application quality of this product, Meta has begun to mandate employees to use this product. Vishal Shah, vice president of Meta Meta Universe, said the Meta team will remain in a “quality retreat” for the rest of the year to ensure that Horizon World’s quality and performance issues can be resolved as soon as possible and reopened to more users.
hosts Meta Meta Universe Dream
Horizon World is an application that allows people to build and interact in the virtual world. Last December, after several years of development and testing, Horizon World was officially released on the Meta Quest headset. As of the beginning of this year, Horizon World has reached 300,000 users, but a lot of feedback received from creators, users, game testers, and the team are stability issues, program errors, etc. This not only affects the user experience of the real functions of Horizon World, but also has a negative impact on the Meta Meta Universe.
Meta is currently investing billions of dollars a year to build its vision for the virtual world, and Meta spokesman Ashley Zandy said Meta believes the metaverse is the future of computing and it should be built around people, and Meta has been making quality improvements and taking action based on feedback from the creator community.
As Zuckerberg's first key move after renamed Facebook to Meta, it can be said that Horizon World has carried many of Meta's expectations. Meta's vision is that companies and consumers can use Horizon World, but it seems that even employees of their own company do not like it.
In order to solve this problem, Meta asked employees to conduct "quality retreat" in an internal letter in mid-September to fully improve the user experience of Horizon World. The internal letter mentioned that this product faces instability and many loopholes, and the physical and user experience is greatly reduced, and internal developers do not spend too much time using it. If even their own people like to use it, it is even more difficult to expect consumers to accept it. Vishal Shah, vice president of Meta Meta Universe, asked the team to use Horizon Worlds at least once a week for internal communication to focus on Horizon World’s quality issues.
entered the European market, but was criticized for being outdated, ugly and dull
Source: Meta
As early in August this year, Horizon World was preparing to enter the European market, and used virtual stand-alones for founder Zuckerberg's personal Facebook and official press releases, with the background of the French Eiffel Tower. However, it has been criticized by other game manufacturers and media for being "outdated", "ugly and dull, and not attractive at all."
This selfie in the Horizon Worlds environment that Zuckerberg made public on social media was intended to disclose its latest development progress and show "excellent" graphic expressiveness. But unfortunately, the picture was ridiculed by netizens around the world as soon as it was exposed. Foreign game media site Kotaku criticized Zuckerberg for showing a soulless portrait. The virtual future that Zuckerberg showed is ordinary, monotonous and boring. Other media generally believe that this picture is more like a game designed around 2005. Not only the avatar, the overall design lacks modern style, and is not cool at all. It is far inferior to Nintendo and Sony Games. It is impossible to see what the significance of Metaverse is.
It can be seen from this that Horizon Worlds is much more than just performance and quality issues. The elements are outdated and the ugly picture is also a problem that needs to be solved urgently.
Survey shows that the public is generally concerned about the metaverse
Source: NordVPN
To understand people’s perception of the metaverse, NordVPN surveyed about 1,000 people, and it turns out that about 87% of users believe that the metaverse will seriously damage their privacy.
Users have different concerns about privacy. Some respondents believe that this makes it easy to impersonate others on social media, some people worry that their identities are no longer protected by law, and others worry that they will not be able to endanger people's safety, the dangers caused by real identities, and the fear of not being able to remain anonymous in the virtual world.
Meta The dream of the metaverse is full of difficulties. The first thing to bear is to solve the performance and failure problems of flagship application Horizon Worlds. Secondly, the picture must be redesigned to match the grand metaverse scene set before. The last and most difficult point is to popularize the public's understanding of the metaverse and eliminate users' concerns about the metaverse.
Finally, the internal letter revealed that the launch time of Horizon Worlds Web version may be delayed, and after the corresponding problems are fixed, you should log in to mobile devices and PC platforms through the Web version.
Reference link:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/6/23391895/meta-facebook-horizon-worlds-vr-social-network-too-buggy-leaked-memo
