Facebook Metaverse: Is It All It Was Cracked Up to Be?
Facebook’s Metaverse, Horizon Worlds, drummed up expectations with being able to exist in the metaverse with a digital copy of your likeness. However, when Mark Zuckerberg himself released his “digital selfie”, Horizon Worlds was on the receiving end of a lot of criticism. Billions of dollars sunk into a platform to create something that looks, well, like it belongs in the wrong decade (take a few back in time).
Zuckerberg addressed the comments by promising improvement.
A short while later, Reuters has received confirmation that the head of Meta’s Horizon platform, Vivek Sharma, is leaving to seek opportunities elsewhere. There is a lot of speculation into what’s behind Sharma’s seemingly abrupt departure and what that means for the VR platform going forward.
As of now, all we know is all team members who reported to Sharma are now under the leadership of Vishal Shah, vice president of Facebook’s Metaverse.