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James Bentley

Meta's latest bid to get you into the metaverse is the Horizon Engine, promising 'infinite connected spaces, more realistic physics, and higher player counts'

Mark Zuckerberg pretends the metaverse is cool.

Are you sick of hearing about the metaverse? Well, it seems like we aren't done yet, as Meta has been drip-feeding details about its upcoming Horizon Engine, a Meta-specific game engine built to create experiences in Meta Horizon. This was partially unveiled just a few weeks ago, but we've now got a few bold claims on the pipeline of creation in the engine, plus a link to sign up for the beta.

In a blog post titled "Meta Horizon Engine at a glance", Meta says the new engine focuses on a few major points: The first is 'Scalability from cloud to mobile', which is effectively the ability to run worlds on the cloud, and then on mobile devices. It mentions the idea of "running on mobile phones", which suggests you will be able to play worlds natively, which you couldn't do prior.

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