Zuckerberg’s faltering US$36bil metaverse vision

A dancer wears live broadcast capture sensors during a 5G and metaverse demonstration at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Funding for metaverse startups has dropped in the past year while venture capitalists have poured money into generative AI companies. Bloomberg

WHEN you first glide into Horizon Worlds, the virtual reality app from Meta Platforms Inc, you’re greeted with a vivid cityscape and portals into worlds with labels like “adventure” and “comedy.”

On a recent visit to the “adventure” world, I zoomed around a town in the Wild West toting a Colt single-action army revolver and occasionally trading shots with three other avatars dashing between a saloon and a bank.