metaverse
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Report: Even Facebook Isn’t Using Its Own Metaverse, Begs Employees To Spend Time In It [Updated]
According to a report by The Verge, Meta’s Horizon Worlds metaverse app is so dreadful, even the people making it don’t want to use it. So if you woke up this morning thinking, “I wonder if anyone’s figured out what the metaverse is for?” you can rest assured, it’s still nope. Horizon Worlds is, according…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Soulless Metaverse Avatar Has Me Worried About Our Digital Future
“Metaverse” is a buzzword that has become quite popular in the last two years. Fortnite is a metaverse. Web3 and blockchain will help power the metaverse. Maybe cows will even be a part of it? However, nobody seems more invested in shaping our collective notion of what the metaverse is than Meta and Facebook boss…
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VRChat’s Easy Anti-Cheat Implementation Angers Community
VR Chat appears to be banning mods in a roundabout way. Though fan-made mods are technically against VR Chat‘s terms of service, they have always been the game’s beating heart. So why is it banning them? Doesn’t that seem a little weird, considering VR Chat‘s popularity was built on fan-made mods? The short answer is that…
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Study Finds Working In VR Isn’t Very Pleasant Or Productive
All the rich Zuckerbergs and like-minded tech bros of the world are convinced that the future is all of us living, loving, and working in a virtual reality “metaverse.” But a new study’s findings suggest that working in virtual reality will not actually increase a worker’s productivity, comfort, or wellbeing. Quite the opposite in fact.