'Billions and billions poured into it and this is the result.'
"Billions and billions poured into it and this is the result."There's no way to sugarcoat it, even if we wanted to. Facebook-turned-Meta's Metaverse — into which Meta has been pouringYesterday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Facebook to post what apparently was meant to be a celebratory screenshot of Meta's Horizon Worlds, a VR game where the digital selves of folks worldwide can gather.
As waves of critics pointed out, the design of this "immersive" world is astoundingly underwhelming. In the cursed screenshot, Zuck's pasty, robotic avatar — the design of which is perhaps a half step above a — is pictured in front of a sparse, sad landscape upon which arbitrarily sized replicas of France's Eiffel Tower and Spain's Tibidabo Cathedral are uncomfortably plopped.
In Zuckerberg's defense, VR graphics don't always translate that well to non-VR displays. But whatever
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