Ugh, Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Isn’t as Dead as We All Hoped
Mark Zuckerberg and his “Metamates” aren’t the only ones roaming around the metaverse.
The VR platform Meta is staking its future on, Horizon Worlds, has enjoyed 10x growth since it was rolled out to users in the US and Canada last December, as first reported by The Verge. According to a Meta spokesperson, the total number of users is up to 300,000 when you include those in Horizon Venues, a separate app for hosting live events, like concerts, sports, and comedy. The monthly user count does not include Horizon Workrooms, Meta’s other platform for conducting VR meetings. ...
Meta dropped out of the world’s 10 largest companies rankings by market value earlier this month. Once worth more than $1 trillion, the company has lost more than $500 billion in market value since September. Earlier this month, it had $230 billion wiped out in one day after revealing the first-ever sequential decline in Facebook daily active users. ...
See the full story here: https://gizmodo.com/meta-horizon-worlds-sees-10x-growth-since-december-1848562017
