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Ian Carlos Campbell

This VR doc shows how vibrant virtual life already is without Meta's meddling

There’s something off about Meta’s advertisements for Horizon Worlds, the social virtual reality app the company hopes to one day be an important component of its currently vaporware — I mean in progress — “metaverse.”

It’s not that the ads are lame, exactly — though plenty of people had a field day dunking on the company’s tone and seeming lack of perspective — it’s that they don’t capture what actual communities already deeply immersed in VR like about the technology, or what’s currently possible in Horizon Worlds in the first place.

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