Report: Even Facebook Isn't Using Its Own Metaverse, Begs Employees To Spend Time In It

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The Verge say they have seen an internal memos from within Meta (née Facebook) that discuss how their flagship VR app for the so-called “metaverse”—according to feedback from playtesters—is so riddled with bugs, “quality issues,” and “papercuts,” that it’s “too hard for our community to experience the magic of Horizon.”“For many of us, we don’t spend that much time in Horizon and our dogfooding dashboards show this pretty clearly,” The Verge says the VP of Metaverse, Vishal Shah, wrote in a memo sent to staff last month.Everything from the blue jeans to the correct red overalls, even the detail down to the yellow snaps.Keep your equipment and accessories orderly.Commanding staff to start loving a thing, even though just two weeks earlier it was lamented that external feedback made clear the project was unusably bad.If you are on Horizon, I need you to fully embrace ambiguity and change.”The “metaverse,” so frequently promised by anyone looking to raise some venture capital for their web3 concept, is an ethereal idea, untroubled by the specifics of reality during a funding round."

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