Meta takes the first steps towards making the metaverse a reality with the Horizon Worlds app
This is the first attempt to release a product since Facebook changed its name to Meta and is in line with CEO Mark Zuckerberg's vision of a "metaverse".
The app, available to those aged 18 and over, allows users to build their own worlds and mini-games. It's similar to Roblox and the OASIS VR world from Ready Player One.
Users can create legless VR avatars in the same style as the Horizon Workrooms workplace meeting system and interact with other avatars.
It also allows you to mingle with 20 people at once in a virtual room and is free for players using the Oculus Quest 2 Meta headset.
Horizon Worlds launched in beta last year for Oculus VR users but the app now means you no longer need to be invited.
"Our vision for Horizon Worlds is to bring creator-friendly VR spaces to life with best-in-class social world building tools," Meta said in its announcement."And we've spent the last year developing those tools and improving them based on feedback from creators."
Creators cannot make money directly from Horizon Worlds but Meta has set up a "creator fund" to reward creators who win competitions.
In October, Meta announced its name change from Facebook. At the time, the company said it would spend about $10 billion (€8.8 billion) over the next year developing the technology to build the metaverse.
“Our hope is that in the next decade, the metaverse will reach one billion people, host hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce, and support the work of millions of creators and developers,” Zuckerberg wrote in October r.
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