Mark Zuckerberg to Overhaul Meta’s Metaverse App Horizon Worlds After Criticism of Its Simple Graphics – Metaverse Bitcoin News

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has decided to overhaul his company’s flagship metaverse app Horizon Worlds after it received heavy criticism for its graphical simplicity. The backlash was received as a consequence of one of the selfies of Zuckerberg’s avatar in Horizon Worlds presented to illustrate the launch of the platform in Spain and France.

Horizon Worlds to get graphics overhaul

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, a social media and VR company, announced that a series of changes are coming to Horizon Worlds, Meta’s metaverse-focused app, to make it more immersive and visually stunning for users.

Zuckerberg delivered the news via an Instagram post, where he also showed the new graphic style that the platform will use in the future. He explained:

Major updates to Horizon and avatar graphics are coming soon… The graphics in Horizon can do a lot more – even on a headset – and Horizon is improving very quickly.

The announced overhaul comes in response to backlash stemming from a selfie of his avatar used to announce the launch of Horizon Worlds in Spain and France, which some users qualified as outdated due to the simple graphics.

Zuckerberg explains

The image’s graphics prompted influencers, columnists and regular users to criticize Meta. Kevin Roose of the New York Times tired:

It’s really baffling that Meta spent more than $10 billion on VR last year, and the graphics in its flagship app still look worse than a 2008 Wii game.

Others also criticized the company, comparing the graphics shown to what pre-2000 technology could do. Emily Gorcenski, an American activist and data analyst, declared:

Come work for Meta, where today’s most brilliant technologists have achieved 1995-level graphics.

However, Zuckerberg explained the graphic of the digital selfie, saying:

I know the photo I posted earlier this week was pretty basic – it was taken very quickly to celebrate a launch.

The criticism comes as Meta has invested a significant amount of funds into its metaverse entity, Reality Labs. While the unit recorded sales of more than $400 million during Q2 2022, losses reached $2.8 billion during the same period. The company issued $10 billion in bonds earlier this month to continue funding its operations, including its metaverse division.

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