Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose flagship Metaverse app, Horizon Worlds, has received significant criticism for its graphical simplicity, has decided to overhaul it. The criticism stemmed from one of Zuckerberg’s avatar selfies within Horizon Worlds, presented to illustrate the platform’s launch in Spain and France.
Horizon Worlds’ graphics have been redesigned.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, a social media and VR company, announced a series of changes to Horizon Worlds, Meta’s Metaverse-focused app, to make it more immersive and visually striking for users.
Zuckerberg broke the news via an Instagram post, where he also showed the new graphic style the platform will use in the future. He explained that,:
Major updates to Horizon and Avatar graphics are coming soon… …Horizon’s graphics are much more even on the headset, and Horizon is improving very quickly…
The overhaul comes in response to a backlash stemming from his avatar selfie used during the Horizon Worlds launch in Spain and France, which some users identified as outdated due to its simple graphics. The overhaul was announced in response to a backlash sparked by the fact that some users identified his selfie as outdated due to its simple graphics.
Zuckerberg explains
The image’s graphic drew criticism from influencers, columnists, and the general public who criticized Meta. Kevin Roose of the New York Times said 36}:37}:38}
It is genuinely puzzling that Meta spent over $10 billion on VR last year and the graphics of its flagship app still look worse than a 2008 Wii game.
Others criticized the company by comparing the displayed graphics to what could be done with pre-2000 technology. Emily Gorsensky, an American activist and data analyst, declared,:
work at Meta, where the best engineers of our time have achieved 1995-level graphics.
But Zuckerberg describes digital selfie graphics this way.
The photos I posted earlier this week are pretty basic and were taken very quickly to celebrate the launch.
The criticism comes as Meta is investing a lot of money in its Metaverse unit, Reality Labs. The division recorded sales of more than $400 million in the second quarter of 2022, but losses for the same period amounted to $2.8 billion. The company issued $10 billion in bonds earlier this month to continue funding its operations, including the Metaverse division.
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