#Horizon worlds

[quohotos]

The greatest mysteries in tech that I've received explanations for but still feel like mysteries:

How the fuck did they spend 10 billion dollars on horizon worlds and have something that looks and plays more shit than second life?

How the fuck is the star citizen single player not out yet in 2024?

Just imagine what would be possible with the kind of money those projects were given.

[hollyqueue]

Dark Crystal in Horizon Worlds

[suspicious-of-simple-answers]

This is a fun story and all, the metaverse is a complete joke, but the 38 active users is not exactly an accurate way of putting it. Actually, it's completely wrong.

I looked at the article linked to in that tweet. That article got the 38 daily active users number from an article by Business Insider. And Business Insider is talking about a specific metaverse world called Decentraland, not Horizon Worlds. It seems to be basically the equivalent of an individual Minecraft server: just a world you can walk around in, not a whole platform.

But still, Business Insider is not the original source. Business Insider got the number from CoinDesk:

Coin Desk seems to be reporting directly based on the report by DappRadar, which did the data gathering. And if you read CoinDesk's article, when they say 38 daily active users they mean 38 people who made in-game purchases in Decentraland in a specific 24 hour window - not an average, just the amount of people who bought something during one day.

If you want to see the numbers reported by Decentraland directly, there's a dashboard that shows those. Of course it could be inaccurate, but so could DappRadar's data, so here it is:

Anyway, all this is just to say, don't believe everything you read on the internet, even if it is really funny. The way information travels these days is a dumb game of broken telephone where nobody actually reads the original source, and small mistakes get amplified into massive misunderstandings.

[tagnoob]

Meta Horizon and Reality Labs - Good Lord, What is Happening in There?!

I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss. -Cyper, from The Matrix, quoted unironically by VentureBeat There is a pretty clear message about the metaverse from VentureBeat in that quote, intentional or otherwise. It seems that Facebook, Meta,…

[anhendyhap]

[virtualrealitynewstoday]

Meta Horizon Worlds v158 更新：生活品質改進與錯誤修復

Meta Horizon Worlds v158 的更新已經來臨！本週，Meta 推出了數項生活品質的改進，包括在虛擬世界中啟用字幕，並試驗從「人脈應用程式」直接加入朋友所在的虛擬世界的功能，同時修復了一些錯誤。 在生活品質改進方面，Meta 正在測試一種新的、更快的方式，讓用戶通過通用選單上的「人脈應用程式」直接加入朋友所在的虛擬世界，無需先開啟 Meta Horizon Worlds。對於參與測試的用戶，如果他們的某個聯絡人正在公開世界中並選擇共享其位置，他們將在人脈應用程式中看到此人，並可以點擊其名字下的「加入」按鈕，直接前往該虛擬世界。 此外，Meta…

[qquintessencee]

VR Photography, Return of the King

[gracekraft]

“Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you…”

An older piece of mine, now available as a print in my shop!

[lescroniques]

Meta està desenvolupant una interfície web i mòbil per a Horizon Worlds

Meta continua amb Horizon Worlds, la seva plataforma de metavers que, fins ara, li ha costat 36.000 milions de dòlars, segons afirmen des de MediaPost, publicació en línia dedicada als professionals del màrqueting, la comunicació, i la publicitat. I això que, segons les últimes estadístiques, menys d’un miler d’usuaris actius la utilitzen diàriament, per la qual cosa la present jugada es pot…

[richdadpoor]

Facebook Userbase Is Apparently Unbothered by Canadian News Ban

Image: Pan Xunbin (Shutterstock) Meta’s decision to block news in Canada has seemingly been met with a shrug by its user base. Data shows that Facebook’s users have remained steady even though the social media platform has banned news links. Meta’s Apparent Firing Goof Canada’s Online News Act would force Big Tech to pay news outlets for content that is shared on its platforms—and Big Tech is…

[sylvanitchi]

おいでよ どうぶつの森

[capricoopla]

You know what? *grants my iterators the ability to walk in the strangest way possible* (it's for au)

[louloucrossing]

i want to go to there… 🌳🌷🍒

[tagnoob]

Meanwhile, Back in the Metaverse...

The headlines about Meta’s Instagram Threads app continues to be quite positive.  They even fixed the issue that was keeping me from logging in on my iPad. But what about Zuck’s last big thing, Horizon Worlds and the whole Metaverse idea?  You remember, the thing that was going to be so big that he renamed the company from Facebook to Meta just to show how invested he was in the idea… and totally…