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I don't know if you're being facetious or what, but of the 15B spent on Reality labs obviously only a fraction went to Horizon Worlds.

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Yes but Horizon Worlds is literally the "metaverse" that they named the whole company after. That's the flagship product it's all for. It's not some accessory app, it's the main thing.

Yikes.

Metaverse != Horizon Worlds

Can you explain what the Metaverse is then?

It's supposed to be the platform for VR(i.e iOS sdk with appstore and all the lock-in).

So he bet the company on a third party app store that lets you download the shitty Second Life wannabe that nobody plays. How is that any better? Lol

Not really. The Second Life wanna be app is a bonus if it becomes popular. Just like Safari and other Apple apps on iOS. Meta bet it's VR ecosystem will become the next iPhone/ios ecosystem(hardware and software). So if someone builds a "killer" app on Oculus Meta wins anyway.

But that platform is Horizon Worlds.

Mark's metaverse is very specifically a shared virtual physical environment. Yes you're going to pay to enter spaces and have experiences and buy clothing... but Horizon Worlds isn't an app on the platform. It is the platform, it is the metaverse, everything is happening within it in Mark's vision here.

Metaverse == Horizon Worlds

Horizon Worlds is quite literally an app on the platform.

Yes, an app on a platform that isn't the metaverse.

The Quest operating system, and the Meta app store, are obviously not the metaverse... the metaverse is a universe of shared 3D spaces. That's Horizon Worlds. The spaces are the "worlds".

I don't know man, this all sounds very rambling and circuitous. I was replying to your comment saying "but Horizon Worlds isn't an app on the platform" which is blatantly wrong.

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