Meta Launches Horizon Worlds, a social virtual reality platform
Horizon Worlds is now available to the general public, a year after it was first tested privately.
Horizon Worlds, on the other hand, is available for free to anyone with an Oculus Quest 2 headset, which Meta sells.
People over the age of 18 in the United States and Canada will be able to download the free Quest app.
Apps like Roblox and others enable users to create their own mini-games and activities on top of Meta’s main game.
“Our goal for Horizon Worlds is to create a user-friendly virtual reality environment with the best in the industry social world-building tools,” Meta says. That’s why, based on feedback, we’ve spent the last year developing and improving those tools.”
Players can fly around their world and add objects such as trees or forms to create a one-of-a-kind digital environment. The game’s rules can then be specified using “scripts,” which are pre-written pieces of code that alter the world around the player.
If you’re looking for examples of similar concepts used by other VR developers, such as Rec Room or VR Chat, look no further than their own “rooms” and games.
Meta claims to have created “thousands of worlds” during the invitation-only beta.
Without the need for additional downloads or processes, players can use the virtual reality game’s creation tools directly.
Horizon Worlds, which debuted as a private beta in September 2019 as a Minecraft-like environment for game creation, has evolved into more of a social platform.
