It appears Meta’s Horizon Worlds may literally and figuratively not have legs after all.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    VRChat is the most popular “metaverse” and it’s still growing every year.

    So it’s weird to call the metaverse dead when Horizon wasn’t even in the lead among its competitors.

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      6 hours ago

      I get your point, I genuinely do. But the way the general public uses the term metaverse is to refer to Horizon, not that style of game/app in general.

    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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      19 hours ago

      VRChat is not owned by meta, therefore not part of the meta verse.

      Metaverse is not the same as VR.

      • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
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        15 hours ago

        Metaverse is a (imo cringe) term for VR experiences in general, but in particular VR social experiences. Facebook changed their name to Meta specifically to try to brand themselves as the metaverse company, it wasn’t the other way around.

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        8 hours ago

        No but undeniably the death of the metaverse is taking VR with it, once meta leaves the VR space it will be exclusively for enthusiasts and low quality indie games.

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          4 hours ago

          once meta leaves the VR space it will be exclusively for enthusiasts and low quality indie games.

          I literally never even heard of anything associated with Horizons that wasn’t a low-quality cashgrab or some kind of scam.

          • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            3 hours ago

            People here forget that a likely $700+ headset designed for streaming (let’s be honest we have no idea how many games will make native ports) is mostly gonna take off with VR enthusiasts. Like the Index this is an explicitly premium headset.