Earlier on Monday, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta posted a screenshot of his digital avatar with a hazy background including the Eiffel Tower and a Spanish building, to introduce the launch of Horizon Worlds, its metaverse platform, in France and Spain. Instead of creating a buzz about the launch of the platform in Europe, there were several memes, criticism and comments about how the metaverse looked artificial as well as about his underwhelming selfie. Zuckerberg later updated the post with a more realistic selfie and a better defined background.
On Friday, Zuckerberg posted new screenshots to two of his popular social media platforms: Facebook and Instagram. This time, his avatar resembled him and the background also looked authentic. He also posted, “Major updates to Horizon and avatar graphics coming soon.”
CEO Zuckerberg said that additional details would be shared at the Connect conference. There has been no update about the date of the upcoming conference. However, the Connect conference of Meta was held in October, in 2021.
The billionaire tech CEO also admitted that the original screenshot was not appealing. He admitted that it was “pretty basic” as it had been “taken very quickly” as they wanted to celebrate the launch of Horizon Worlds” in France and Spain.
Zuckerberg also declared that the graphics in the metaverse platform Horizon was “capable of much more–even on headsets.” He also added that Horizons was improving very quickly.
Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg said that the company would lose money for up to five years as it continues to set up and expand its virtual reality world called the metaverse. Meta, formerly called Facebook, has already seen substantial losses as its stock has diminished in value as the number of users on Facebook have been decreasing.
Meta is still putting in billions to expand the metaverse. However, hiring was frozen from May, as the growth in revenue has declined. According to a report by Reuters in July, CEO Zuckerberg had raised performance goals as Meta was looking to let go of staff that “shouldn’t be here.” Zuckerberg has sad that he expected the metaverse to generate billions in profits before the end of the decade as users will buy merchandise, in the virtual world.
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