Meta Teases Web Version of Horizon Worlds 15
In a Twitter thread earlier today, Meta CTO Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth teased a web version of Horizon Worlds, the company's virtual reality platform that's an integral part of their plan for creating a "metaverse." Boz was responding to criticism from MacRumors' Sami Fathi, who pointed out the hypocrisy of Meta taking an almost 50% commission on "metaverse" purchases after complaining about the 15-30% cut Apple takes from developers in the App Store.
"We're taking a different approach with our margin (heh) on Quest devices to make them available to more people," said Boz. "We're committed to help build a different ecosystem. Developers are already seeing success on the Quest Store alone -- over 120 titles are generating over $1M." He added: "We're making good on our goal to ensure that developers have a path to real financial success on our platform. It's early days, there is still a lot of work to be done and we continue to partner closely with our creators and developers to enable them to earn meaningful revenue." Boz went on to say that the Horizon World's platform fee "will only be 25%" when the web version launches -- "a much lower rate compared to other similar world-building platforms."
"We're taking a different approach with our margin (heh) on Quest devices to make them available to more people," said Boz. "We're committed to help build a different ecosystem. Developers are already seeing success on the Quest Store alone -- over 120 titles are generating over $1M." He added: "We're making good on our goal to ensure that developers have a path to real financial success on our platform. It's early days, there is still a lot of work to be done and we continue to partner closely with our creators and developers to enable them to earn meaningful revenue." Boz went on to say that the Horizon World's platform fee "will only be 25%" when the web version launches -- "a much lower rate compared to other similar world-building platforms."
LOL (Score:1)
"We're making good on our goal to ensure that developers have a path to real financial success on our platform.
By taking 50% of their money.
Epic level douchebaggery
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Maybe Elon Musk should make an offer to buy Facebook as well! The board would be better to accept it since with Zuck, the enterprise seems to be doomed. You can't get lucky all the time like Zuck was at first! /s
Sigh (Score:3)
The world will be a much better place once
a) the "crypto bro" fad ends
b) Metabook dies.
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Well, these two would certainly help.
margin (heh) (Score:2)
oh my only 25% (Score:2)
Misspelled "threatens" there champ (Score:2)
Nobody wants it. It looks like something that should have shipped with the Wii. Let it go.
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People do want it. Their wants are filled with things like IMVU [imvu.com], or GTA RP [youtube.com] or even Replika [replika.ai].
There is plenty of demand for virtual worlds. Facebook is just entirely incompetent and their world sucks hard (no one has legs).
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People want VR, and even want it to be MMO, but they do not want it to be this shit-show from failbook. And people will expect "the metaverse" (or whatever it actually winds up being called) to be like the web, with portals between sub-verses. And they will expect to bring their player model with them from 'verse to 'verse.
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ok, the metaverse they way you describe it sounds pretty cool. Facebook should hire you.
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I got the ideas from the book where the term was coined, and which is currently excerpted in my sig. Facebook should have hired Neal Stephenson.
So stupid (Score:2)
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What about my boat and train simulators you insensitive clod?
Who is interested in the metaverse? (Score:1)
No thank you (Score:1)