Horizon Worlds: Facebook strokes his name from the social VR

Facebook feels its name as bad for the VR business? At least the social VR kit meeting point Facebook Horizon was renamed Horizon Worlds. That reports uploadvr.com about the online app for Oculus Quest, whose beta is not accessible from Europe for the time being.

The principle of the open world with different meeting places and editor tools for own games and levels is reminiscent of projects such as the successful REC room (to the metaver-special). Similar to the local monetization (or in Dreams), there should also be in Facebook Horizon opportunities to benefit monetary of creativity and diligence in the construction kit (more in the Oculus Blog).

Facebook has planned a Creator Fund of ten million dollars, which is supposed to be distributed for competitions to the creators of awarded works. Furthermore, the money should flow into an Accelerator Program - and to promote developers expanding the online world to predetermined topics.

Horizon Worlds Vice President Vivek Sharma The Facebook Reality Labs also expect that in the future, the players also trade with each other. These may include things like trade and gifting options of various items, events with ticket sales as well as subscription services created by users. Concretely, he had not announce anything in this direction. In the course of the year 2021 you will always allow further participants to the beta.

For disappointment in the developer community, however, it is likely to ensure that new worlds created in Unity should not be further supported technically. For this to make Facebook creative hobbyists obviously urge to use their own tools in the game after a takeover attempt of the engine failed.

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