Meta launches Horizon Worlds in France and Spain – TechCrunch

In an effort to expand its social platform for virtual reality, Horizon Worlds, Meta is launching it in France and Spain today — building on the existing three markets including the U.S., Canada, and the UK where it was already available. Mark Zuckerberg posted a Facebook message announcing the launch, with an unappetizing picture and stating that the platform will be expanding to other countries.

Image Credits Mark Zuckerberg

Meta launched Horizon Worlds last year for users over 18 in the U.S.A and Canada. available for users in the UK in June. It also happens in April said It’s currently developing a web version of virtual worlds that allows people to use their existing VR headsets.

The company has added safety features such as controls for voice chat over the past few months. 4-foot personal boundaries Avatars are available on the Horizon Worlds platform.

Horizon Worlds, one of the VR social applications offered by Meta is only one. Meta has a vision for building a metaverse of virtual worlds. The company hopes that users will spend more of their time in these virtual spaces with friends, and even make purchases in-app. But the company’s still very far away from achieving any of this.

Since the company’s rebranding to Meta from Facebook, it has spent a lot on building the metaverse over the past few quarters. The Q2 2022 revenue drop was the firm’s first in a quarter, but they remain optimistic that their metaverse bet is paying off. Meta said Horizon World App more than 300,000 monthly users.

“This is obviously a very expensive undertaking over the next several years. But as the metaverse becomes more important in every part of how we live from our social platforms, to entertainment, to work, and education and commerce, I’m confident that we’re going to be glad that we played an important role in building this,” Zuckerberg said During the quarterly earnings call for Q2 2022.

In April, Zuckerberg said the company lost $3 billion because of metaverse-building but he was hopeful that it’ll all come to fruition by 2030.