US EditionMark Zuckerberg's metaverse failed. What we're left with is worse.
Meta is ending VR/metaverse projects due to technical challenges and weak engagement while introducing AI features, signaling a major strategic pivot under Mark Zuckerberg's leadership.
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Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse failed. What we're left with is worse.
Mark Zuckerberg finally confronts himself during a 2021 demonstration of the metaverse.MetaMeta's big bet on the metaverse hasn't worked out, and its shifted investment away.But the metaverse, as stupid and silly and legless as it was, was a beautiful idea.Instead, now we have an internet full of AI slop and doom. Bad trade!In 2021, Facebook renamed itself "Meta" because it was the first part of the word "metaverse." This is fitting because "leg…
Zuckerberg predicted a billion users. Horizon Worlds never topped a few hundred thousand
When Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta in late 2021, he called the metaverse "the next frontier" and predicted it would "reach a billion people." He envisioned "hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce." Horizon Worlds, Meta's VR social network, was supposed to be the foundation. — Read the rest The post Zuckerberg predicted a billion users. Horizon Worlds never topped a few hundred thousand appeared first on Boing Boing.
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Reed’s viewAfter Meta’s reckoning with Horizon World, its virtual-reality platform, a chorus of “I told you so”s rang out from critics of Mark Zuckerberg’s more than $70 billion Metaverse bet — and, of course, his choice to rename his company after it.It’s the right call, but the wrong takeaway. Virtual reality was a dead end for Meta, but not because Zuckerberg’s vision of the future is wrong. It’s because the technology needed to make it possi…
This week, Nvidia's annual GTC 2026 conference showcased the company's true-to-life space ideas, such as systems-on-a-chip for data centers in space. Meanwhile, Meta swept its long-rumored metaverse idea under the rug, putting artificial intelligence (AI) at the center of its strategy.
The Metaverse Warnings Were Clear Years Ago, Meta Chose to Ignore Them
Meta’s decision to scale back Horizon Worlds does not arrive as a shock, rather a confirmation. Over the past few weeks, the company has moved away from positioning Horizon Worlds as a central VR-first platform, softening earlier plans of a full shutdown while clearly reducing its long-term commitment. The platform will continue to exist, but without meaningful expansion. In strategic terms, this is not continuity. It is containment. For a compa…
The Facebook group Meta differs from its 3D world of Horizons after CEO Mark Zuckerberg had for many years unsuccessfully tried to establish virtual reality as a new computer platform. User interest remained low. Meta's Reality Labs, which developed Horizon Worlds and the related quest headsets, posted billions of losses for quarter. Previously, Meta's VR studios were closed
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