Articles for Horizon Worlds

Meta Horizon Worlds Has Been Taken Over by Children
1 month, 1 week ago

Meta Horizon Worlds Has Been Taken Over by Children

Wired  

Won't somebody please think of the children? Pop into a VR realm like Meta’s Horizon Worlds for even a moment, and an army of kids in their digital avatars will swarm all around you almost everywhere you go—waving, laughing, jumping, tossing digital objects, and shouting everything from high-pitched shrieks to straight up racial slurs. Jeremy Bailenson, the founding director of …

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A young girl’s avatar was assaulted in the metaverse – what should be considered a crime in VR worlds?
10 months, 3 weeks ago

A young girl’s avatar was assaulted in the metaverse – what should be considered a crime in VR worlds?

The Independent  

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Doja Cat to stage first ever VR concert for her Scarlet arena tour in partnership with Meta
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Doja Cat to stage first ever VR concert for her Scarlet arena tour in partnership with Meta

Daily Mail  

Doja Cat has announced that she will stage her first VR concert in partnership with Meta. The 28-year-old Woman hitmaker released a teaser video for Doja Cat: The Scarlet Tour In VR on Tuesday which gave a tantalizing look at her latest project It was filmed at the Detroit date of her Scarlet Tour which took place in Little Caesars …

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Don't Focus On Teens With Metaverse: US Senator to Meta CEO Zuckerberg
1 year, 9 months ago

Don't Focus On Teens With Metaverse: US Senator to Meta CEO Zuckerberg

News 18  

US Senators have urged Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to stop plans to open its metaverse platforms to teenagers. Meta may open access to its social virtual reality platform Horizon Worlds for users aged 13 to 17 this month as it struggles to grow its VR business. According to TechCrunch, Senators Richard Blumenthal and Ed Markey wrote a letter …

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Meta to revamp Horizon Metaverse app, plans to open for teen use as soon as Mar
1 year, 10 months ago

Meta to revamp Horizon Metaverse app, plans to open for teen use as soon as Mar

Live Mint  

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is revamping its fledgling Horizon Worlds metaverse app, seeking to draw in more teen and young-adult users after working to improve the service’s design, according to a memo sent to the team working on the initiative. In the memo, titled “Horizon 2023 Goals and Strategy," Meta Vice President of Horizon Gabriel Aul outlines the team’s …

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The Metaverse Doesn’t Have a Leg to Stand On
2 years ago

The Metaverse Doesn’t Have a Leg to Stand On

Wired  

It only takes four words to sum up the absurd trajectory of the tech world in 2022: “Legs are coming soon!” This October, Meta announced an improvement to its metaverse, Horizon Worlds. To show off the new feature, the company released a clip of Mark Zuckerberg’s Horizon Worlds avatar happily lifting each leg, then jumping. In the past few years, …

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Facebook planning 'large scale layoffs' following hiring freeze
2 years, 1 month ago

Facebook planning 'large scale layoffs' following hiring freeze

Daily Mail  

Facebook is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week that will affect thousands of employees with an announcement planned as early as Wednesday. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is planning to lay off up to 12,000 underperforming Facebook workers Meta's share price has continued to plummet with a 73 percent fall since the start of 2022 Since the start of 2022, …

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Meta’s flagship Horizon Worlds app is plagued by bugs: report
2 years, 2 months ago

Meta’s flagship Horizon Worlds app is plagued by bugs: report

The Hindu  

Meta’s Horizon Worlds has been designed to let people build and interact in virtual worlds using individual avatars, and is one of the key elements of the virtual interactions on the platform. But the company’s flagship app is now suffering from several quality issues that members of the very team behind the app are not using it much, according to …

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Mark Zuckerberg, the metaverse, and me: Horizon Worlds, reviewed.
2 years, 3 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg, the metaverse, and me: Horizon Worlds, reviewed.

Slate  

About a month ago, I found myself suddenly out of work. It was then that a beacon of light punctured the doldrums of my unemployment: this picture of “Mark Zuckerberg” visiting “the Eiffel Tower” and “La Basílica De La Sagrada Família” in the so-called metaverse, specifically his company’s Horizon Worlds app. “Mark Zuckerberg’s” smooth, weird face and dead green eyes …

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Here’s why you still look terrible in virtual reality
2 years, 3 months ago

Here’s why you still look terrible in virtual reality

CNN  

CNN Business — Mark Zuckerberg has bet his company’s future on an ambitious long-term vision of people carrying out greater portions of their lives in virtual spaces through digital alter egos. Days later, Zuckerberg himself admitted the image was “pretty basic” and posted a screenshot of a more detailed version of his avatar, saying that “major updates” to Horizon and …

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Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse demo of Horizon Worlds looks so crappy for a reason.
2 years, 4 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse demo of Horizon Worlds looks so crappy for a reason.

Slate  

To hear it from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in just a few years the entire world will be able to step inside a virtual-reality utopia where they can live their best lives. The graphics look like they came out of a computer game developed in 1997. pic.twitter.com/KuGMBMF3O1 — Chris Bakke August 17, 2022 I JUST realized that the entire reason …

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Woman, 21, is 'virtually RAPED' by a stranger in Meta's metaverse app
2 years, 6 months ago

Woman, 21, is 'virtually RAPED' by a stranger in Meta's metaverse app

Daily Mail  

A woman was 'virtually raped' by a stranger in Meta's Horizon Worlds metaverse app while another user 'watched and passed around a bottle of vodka', a new report claims. It's an early step in Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's ambition to transform the platform into a 'metaverse' – a collective virtual shared space featuring avatars of real people. Horizon Worlds was …

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Harassment is a problem in VR, and it’s likely to get worse
2 years, 7 months ago

Harassment is a problem in VR, and it’s likely to get worse

CNN  

CNN Business — If you believe Mark Zuckerberg, the future is virtual. But there’s already one problem that some users have reported cropping up in the nascent space: harassment and other unwanted behavior, particularly in social VR apps and games, including in Horizon Worlds. “Even though you see really bad behavior happen in the real world, I think it can …

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Today’s Cache | Facebook takes relics of app world into metaverse
2 years, 8 months ago

Today’s Cache | Facebook takes relics of app world into metaverse

The Hindu  

Since Facebook made a push for metaverse in October after whistle-blower revelations tarnished its reputation, the company has made announcements about its latest bet only in fits and starts. Horizon is the umbrella platform that hosts the company’s gaming, live events, and VR conferencing services. Before its December rollout, only Horizon Worlds was in private beta for users to test …

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The metaverse has a Clubhouse problem
2 years, 10 months ago

The metaverse has a Clubhouse problem

Hindustan Times  

What is it like to experience the metaverse? After all, the VR harassment had felt more visceral; as University of Miami professor and Cyber Civil Rights Initiative president Mary Anne Franks noted in The Desert of the Unreal: Inequality in Virtual and Augmented Reality: “Harassment in VR is far more traumatic than in other digital worlds.” There’s a ‘Safe Zone’ …

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Why you can’t have legs in virtual reality (yet)
2 years, 10 months ago

Why you can’t have legs in virtual reality (yet)

CNN  

CNN — Mark Zuckerberg stares at a cartoon version of himself in a virtual world and tries to pick an outfit for his avatar to wear. Companies can track a person’s upper body reasonably well with a headset and controllers, but actual leg tracking is practically non-existent in virtual reality right now — at least when it comes to the …

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Meta is giving avatars a four-foot buffer zone to cut back on VR harassment
2 years, 10 months ago

Meta is giving avatars a four-foot buffer zone to cut back on VR harassment

CNN  

CNN Business — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has a new feature aimed at cutting down on harassment and assault in virtual reality: It will give avatars in its Horizon Worlds social app and Horizon Venues events app an invisible “personal boundary” of four feet to stop others from getting too close. Meta is giving avatars four-foot personal boundaries …

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Here’s what it’s like inside Meta’s virtual world
3 years ago

Here’s what it’s like inside Meta’s virtual world

CNN  

CNN — On a chilly December afternoon I played a heart-pounding game of laser tag, flew across town on a magical broom, killed zombies in an abandoned mall, and hung out with an old friend who lives roughly 2,000 miles away— all without leaving my home or, in fact, my living room. After spending days in Horizon Worlds, it’s clear …

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Meta's metaverse app user reveals her avatar was 'virtually groped'
3 years ago

Meta's metaverse app user reveals her avatar was 'virtually groped'

Daily Mail  

An early tester of Meta's Horizon Worlds app has revealed her avatar was virtually groped by a stranger within the metaverse. An early tester of Meta's Horizon Worlds metaverse app said her avatar was virtually groped by a stranger WHAT IS HORIZON WORLDS? An early tester of Meta's Horizon Worlds metaverse app said her avatar was virtually groped by a …

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Facebook opens Horizon Worlds VR app to public, inches close to metaverse
3 years ago

Facebook opens Horizon Worlds VR app to public, inches close to metaverse

India Today  

Facebook on Thursday announced that it is introducing Horizon Worlds, its virtual reality world of avatars, for users who are the age of 18 and above in the US and Canada. Eligible users who own Facebook’s Oculus virtual reality headsets can create a legless avatar that will wander in the animated virtual world, play games, and interact with other users’ …

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Meta officially launches its Horizon Worlds metaverse app
3 years ago

Meta officially launches its Horizon Worlds metaverse app

Daily Mail  

It has been two years in the making, but Meta has official launched its Horizon Worlds metaverse app to the public. Horizon Worlds is far from a fully realized metaverse that CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions, which a future internet where online experiences like chatting to a friend would eventually feel face-to-face interactions. Scroll down for videos It has been two …

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It’s not quite the metaverse, but Meta is launching its virtual world
3 years ago

It’s not quite the metaverse, but Meta is launching its virtual world

CNN  

CNN Business — Meta is bringing its vision of a so-called metaverse closer to reality. Facebook's new social app for VR, Horizon Worlds, encourages users to hang out together and create new virtual worlds. Meta The Horizon Worlds launch also comes as Meta doubles down on its VR efforts as part of a long-term bet on the metaverse. Meta said …

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