Meta Teases Web Version of Horizon Worlds

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."

LOL

[Anonymous Coward]

"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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[ls671]

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

[Mandrake]

The world will be a much better place once

a) the "crypto bro" fad ends

b) Metabook dies.

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[gweihir]

Well, these two would certainly help.

margin (heh)

[Samantha Wright]

I'm not sure what the context of "margin (heh)" is, but I'd like to assume the author simply cannot resist the urge to type "(heh)" after "margin," like some sort of Beavis and Butthead verbal tic in written form.

oh my only 25%

[shaitand]

This kind of BS on the part of the app store is why I passed on doing any development on the magic leap.

Misspelled "threatens" there champ

[drinkypoo]

Nobody wants it. It looks like something that should have shipped with the Wii. Let it go.

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[phantomfive]

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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[drinkypoo]

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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[phantomfive]

ok, the metaverse they way you describe it sounds pretty cool. Facebook should hire you.

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[drinkypoo]

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

[DMJC]

All of these attempts at making cyberspace into a real thing are going to fail. Until there's a neural implant most of these ideas are dumb. VR is best for simulating planes, cars, helicopters, submarines and spaceships.

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[ls671]

What about my boat and train simulators you insensitive clod?

Who is interested in the metaverse?

[bimbo69]

My Facebook is 10% content and 90% geriatric assholes spreading hate and fake ads from billionaires selling crypto and financial scams. I honestly can't think of anyone I know who would bother logging into the Metaverse. Should I bother whipping out the Quest and looking at whatever this zuch shite is?

No thank you

[bsdetector101]

No to Meta, FB, metaverse,Horizon World as I don't want to be a cash cow and have my pryvate info used for their gains !!!