'Frankly I'm kind of embarrassed about our social story here but thankfully the slack's been picked up by the third parties,' John Carmack said during Facebook Connect this week.
"We had Rooms, Spaces, co-watching and all those are gone," he said, naming prior services."Venues has been in maintenance mode for this entire time. So we made this huge bet on Horizon and we've had all these people working on it and you're seeing... fruits of that finally with the Venues 2.0 now but, basically we weren't ready.
Facebook confirmed in August this year that it was testing the addition of social features to Venues, an app designed to let users watch live events using the headset., there was little appetite inside the company, which now operates under the banner Facebook Reality Labs , to re-launch the prior projects.
"We had all of this effort going into it, we had let the previous products more or less rot or go away, and I had made a pitch that 'well, can't we just resurrect Rooms for this time? Rooms for the pandemic, here," he said. "We could have run it but nobody wanted to stop the scheduled things and everything that was already planned for this time, to go work on something like that."
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