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Meta, the social networking company, has expanded the services of its flagship metaverse app, Horizon Worlds, to Spain and France. This move is part of Meta’s expansion plan to offer these services to more countries in Europe this year. While the app was available as an invite-only service in 2020, it just opened its services to the general public in December 2021 for the US and Canadian markets.
Meta, the social media conglomerate, is expanding its metaverse offerings to Europe. The company recently announced the launch of one of its main metaverse apps, Horizon Worlds, in Spain and France. In a post, the company announced that all citizens over the age of 18 in these countries will have the opportunity to enjoy this service by using one of the VR headsets sold by the company.
Horizon Worlds allows users to experience a VR world where they are represented by a configurable avatar, and can roam worlds created by other players and experiences developed by companies. This launch in these two countries is part of a move that will seek to launch Horizon Worlds in more European countries before 2023.
The app, which has been available to users as an invite-only closed beta since 2020, opened its services to the US and Canada last December and followed that launch by opening its platform to customers based in the UK, Ireland and Iceland this year.
Spain is a country of particular importance to the company, as it has decided to invest more than a billion dollars to build a giant data center in the region of Talavera de la Reina. About this, Javier Olivan, VP cross-Meta products and infrastructure, declared:
Spain is at the forefront of European technology. The country benefits from having two strong technology hubs: Barcelona and Madrid. As our company prepares to help build the metaverse, we place Spain at the heart of our plans.
In addition, a new Meta Workers’ Hub will also be built in Madrid. Another project is the Metaverse Lab, which the company is building in collaboration with Telefonica, to entice companies to produce metaverse-based products.
However, the Spanish government has also asked Meta to respect the national laws regarding the handling of user data collected by the company in its apps. According to local media, Pedro Sánchez, President of Spain, emphasized that the data of the Spanish people must remain in Spain and be processed according to local laws.
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