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The metaverse is the future of Meta. This has been made clear by Mark Zuckerberg by active and passive during the last months. Now the technology company has achieved that its Virtual Reality applications created with the aim of allowing users to socialize, Horizon Worldsand attend concerts and live events, Horizon Venues, have reached, in total, 300,000 users. That’s how you hold it’
The Verge‘, medium that quotes Joe Osborne, spokesman for the technology company.
Horizon Worlds has been available to all viewer users since last December Oculus Quest -recently renamed as Meta Quest- in United States and Canada. According to the aforementioned medium, the number of users
it is growing ten times every month. Horizon Venues, for its part, came out in beta in 2020. During its lifetime it has served as a virtual concert platform through which musicians such as Steve Aoki, Major Lazer O Foo Fighters. As with Worlds, it is still not available in all regions.
The way Worlds works is reminiscent of video games like ‘Roblox‘ ‘Core‘ O ‘Minecraft‘. Inside, users can create their own worlds and hang out with others as a legless avatar. According to a recent social media post by Meta’s Virtual Reality division, to date 10,000 different worlds have already been created within the application.
It’s time. 10,000 worlds have already been created. Drop in and play, build or just hang out. The possibilities are endless. pic.twitter.com/VWc83PkuDV
— Horizon Worlds (@HorizonWorlds) February 16, 2022
The good results of the application do not necessarily imply that Zuckerberg’s metaverse will soon become an element capable of sustaining a company that, to this day, continues to depend heavily on the profits generated by on Facebook or Instagram. . Two platforms where the company amasses billions of monthly active users.
It should be remembered that the Meta Virtual Reality division generated a hole in the company’s accounts of 10,000 million dollars during 2021. Nothing indicates, however, that the company is going to stop investing in what it considers to be the future of the Internet. More considering that the growth in the number of users, especially on Facebook, has ceased to be what it was.
Without a doubt, the increase in the sale of scopes Quest 2 during Christmas -the number of downloads of the Oculus VR mobile ‘app’, necessary for the viewer,
it was downloaded 1.5 million times in the US. between December 23 and 29 – is largely to blame for the results of Zuckerberg’s metaverse sites. It is estimated that, to date, the company has managed to sell more than 10 million Meta Quest 2 glasses. The most recent of the firm, which is expected to launch a new, more ambitious device known as Project Cambria.
“The evolution that is being seen in the applications is very good,” Edgar Martín-Blas, the director of Virtual Voyagers, the Spanish company behind the creation of the concert platform for Venues, explains to ABC. The expert points out that, in addition, the 300,000 users correspond only to two wings of the metaverse that are not even available to most users: «Venues is a little more open, but most of the content is only accessible from the United States by topic of rights, only some users who they invite can enter.
Martín-Blas emphasizes that, in order for Meta’s metaverse to continue to grow, it is necessary to increase its presence in the field of retail and for its viewers to be more available outside the US. «Here in Spain you can see them in Media Markt, Amazon or Fnac. What is needed is for the company to start opening its own stores. They are acting without haste, when they try to replicate it on a global scale it will be worth it, “expects the executive.