Recently, after changing its name to Meta, Facebook, which has a market value of nearly RMB 6 trillion, announced that its VR world “Horizon Worlds” is officially open to adult users over the age of 18 in the United States and Canada. This is also the most iconic meta universe product launched by Meta. It is understood that after Horizon Worlds is officially opened in North America, users need to use the Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality helmet to create characters. There are also human guides on the platform, who are responsible for guiding the direction and teaching behavior rules for new users, and maintaining the health of the community.
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What’s interesting is that the avatar created on this platform has only the upper body, not the lower body.
It is understood that Horizon Worlds is a multiplayer game platform that combines Roblox and Ready Player One’s OASIS (Oasis) VR world expansion. It was originally named Horizon. Users can interact with up to 20 people in the virtual space through Facebook accounts. At the same time interactive communication.
In September 2019, Horizon Worlds first launched a test version. Thousands of test players have held regular comedy shows, movie nights and meditation courses on the platform. In addition, they have also produced Ecto-1 in “Ghostbusters”. Vivek Sharma, vice president of Meta company Horizon, once said that the platform has many interesting things for people to do.
According to the American technology media The Verge, the key to Horizon Worlds is the ability to write basic codes that determine the form of an object’s actions, such as shooting when the user presses the trigger, or bouncing when the ball touches a surface. Meta refers to the code as a script block, which works like a layer overlay in Photoshop, linking different rules together to create complex interactions. Vivek Sharma also said that the company will release a free script library in the future.
Netizen: Can you add legs?
Domestic netizens also talked about the most iconic meta-universe product Horizon Worlds launched by Meta.
Some netizens expressed affirmation about this, believing that Horizon Worlds has turned virtual into reality, and some netizens bluntly said that “Black Mirror” is not a fictional series, but a documentary.
Some netizens said that this is only an upgraded version of the game, the virtual world is meaningless, and you should live in the present.
Some netizens believe that the image in Horizon Worlds has no legs, and the reality is much worse. They hope to add legs. In this regard, some netizens ridiculed that “where you can walk without legs has become a reality.”
The concept of meta-universe continues to fire
Since the beginning of this year, the meta-universe concept has been on fire. Tencent, Byte, Alibaba, NetEase, Baidu and other major companies have also registered the Meta Universe trademark and deployed the Meta Universe field.
On December 10th, Baidu announced that it would release the meta universe product “Hiron” on December 27th. According to reports, the shape of “Greon” is a Mobius ring planet. The product creates a multi-person interactive space that spans virtual and reality and lasts forever. After users create their own avatars, they can log in to “Greetings” on their personal computers, mobile phones, and wearable devices to listen to meetings, go shopping, communicate, and watch exhibitions.
Judging from the published descriptions of the content, there seems to be not much difference between “Greetings” and Horizon Worlds. However, judging from the problems that Horizon Worlds has exposed, the meta-universe world is not perfect.
According to the American technology media The Verge, in a virtual reality environment like Horizon Worlds, safety has become a major issue because it is easy to come into contact with strangers. Earlier this month, a beta player posted on Facebook’s official Horizon group about his experience of being harassed by strangers. She wrote: “Sexual harassment is not a joke on the Internet, but this behavior is more serious in virtual reality.” “Last night not only I was harassed, but there was even support for this behavior, which made me I feel isolated in the platform.”
In addition, as of now, no matter as a creator, guide or player, it is impossible to make a profit in Horizon Worlds. Meta plans to eventually bundle it with Horizon venue and Horizon Workrooms. Horizon venue is an independent experience platform that uses VR to hold large-scale events, and Horizon Workrooms is the company’s VR work collaboration software.
Although Metaverse has not yet made a profit for Mate, it does not affect the continued popularity of the concept of Metaverse. Since the beginning of this year, in the A-share market, regardless of the Internet, media stocks or game stocks, it seems that as long as the concept of Metaverse is applied, the stock price of the leading Zhongqingbao has soared by 400%, and the market value has risen by more than 300%. .
In addition, there has also been a major explosion in Metaverse real estate transactions. Statistics show that in the week from November 22 to 28, the total transaction volume of the four major Metaverse real estate trading platforms was close to 106 million U.S. dollars. According to Forbes, a construction company can make nearly $300,000 in designing a project in Metaverse.
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