Meta’s much-talked-about Horizon Worlds is a feature that only mature audiences are able to subscribe to. But that might be changing very soon.
A new report by The WSJ says the tech giant is very keen on taking part in an expansion of its Horizon Worlds by launching it to younger audiences. These would be below the age of 18. And the change could be rolling out as early as next month.
The fun and exciting VR social experience would be up for grabs for those aged 13 to 17 as a part of the tech giant’s efforts to make a bigger impact on the market and better user retention.
Meanwhile, another report from The Journal has shed light on how the details of this news were present inside an internal memo that came with the subject heading, ‘Horizon 2023 Goals’. This is where the firm’s VP for the entire VR division highlighted the goals that the company hopes to achieve during the first part of 2023.
Moreover, he emphasized on how younger audiences held the key to the entire digital metaverse and its success. For this reason, the company needs to make more efforts that prove to them that Meta cares about their presence and participation across various endeavors.
Similarly, he spoke to the publication about how teenagers are spending plenty of their time on the likes of different virtual reality offerings such as its Quest, and now, it wants to make sure that it can add some greater depth to the whole Horizon World experience. And this would be done with the help taken from more relevant tools and various protections that are currently in place at this point in time.
For now, Meta is fairly hush on what exactly the Horizon World experience for younger users would entail and how it plans on offering them more protection. But what we do know is that by 2021, a report by The Journal highlighted how the firm’s respective researchers saw the Instagram app as one that’s so harmful by a huge margin for younger audiences. And the special emphasis was put on teenage girls.
As a result of this endeavor, Meta was seen putting a pause on various works regarding its Instagram for Children feature. At the same time, it witnessed the launching of several safety enhancements for teens on the platform. Similarly, the app was also witnessed putting an automated limit for features like triggering and other types of sensitive content that was designed for audiences below the age of 16.
Other than the fact that the platform is welcoming younger audiences to its Horizon World, Meta hopes to grow its figures for active users on a monthly basis. This would fall in between the figures of 500,000, which was a jump from 200,000 during the initial half of this year.
But what is even more important during this point in time is how it hopes to target retention rates comprising 20%. Remember, Horizon World had a retention rate of 11% in the month of January and that meant only one in nine respective users would be returning back for a great experience in the next month.
Facebook’s parent firm really does hope to achieve these great targets by enhancing the service’s reliance and performance while trying to remove bugs that take a toll on users’ enjoyment.
On the other hand, Meta also plans on launching around 20 more Horizon experiences that are designed by third parties to try and grab more users. In the same way, it really hopes to ensure this virtual reality endeavor is more accessible to the masses by launching a web version for smart devices.
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A new report by The WSJ says the tech giant is very keen on taking part in an expansion of its Horizon Worlds by launching it to younger audiences. These would be below the age of 18. And the change could be rolling out as early as next month.
The fun and exciting VR social experience would be up for grabs for those aged 13 to 17 as a part of the tech giant’s efforts to make a bigger impact on the market and better user retention.
Meanwhile, another report from The Journal has shed light on how the details of this news were present inside an internal memo that came with the subject heading, ‘Horizon 2023 Goals’. This is where the firm’s VP for the entire VR division highlighted the goals that the company hopes to achieve during the first part of 2023.
Moreover, he emphasized on how younger audiences held the key to the entire digital metaverse and its success. For this reason, the company needs to make more efforts that prove to them that Meta cares about their presence and participation across various endeavors.
Similarly, he spoke to the publication about how teenagers are spending plenty of their time on the likes of different virtual reality offerings such as its Quest, and now, it wants to make sure that it can add some greater depth to the whole Horizon World experience. And this would be done with the help taken from more relevant tools and various protections that are currently in place at this point in time.
For now, Meta is fairly hush on what exactly the Horizon World experience for younger users would entail and how it plans on offering them more protection. But what we do know is that by 2021, a report by The Journal highlighted how the firm’s respective researchers saw the Instagram app as one that’s so harmful by a huge margin for younger audiences. And the special emphasis was put on teenage girls.
As a result of this endeavor, Meta was seen putting a pause on various works regarding its Instagram for Children feature. At the same time, it witnessed the launching of several safety enhancements for teens on the platform. Similarly, the app was also witnessed putting an automated limit for features like triggering and other types of sensitive content that was designed for audiences below the age of 16.
Other than the fact that the platform is welcoming younger audiences to its Horizon World, Meta hopes to grow its figures for active users on a monthly basis. This would fall in between the figures of 500,000, which was a jump from 200,000 during the initial half of this year.
But what is even more important during this point in time is how it hopes to target retention rates comprising 20%. Remember, Horizon World had a retention rate of 11% in the month of January and that meant only one in nine respective users would be returning back for a great experience in the next month.
Facebook’s parent firm really does hope to achieve these great targets by enhancing the service’s reliance and performance while trying to remove bugs that take a toll on users’ enjoyment.
On the other hand, Meta also plans on launching around 20 more Horizon experiences that are designed by third parties to try and grab more users. In the same way, it really hopes to ensure this virtual reality endeavor is more accessible to the masses by launching a web version for smart devices.
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