In its quest to make the metaverse happen, Meta seems to have forgotten people use VR mostly for games

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The Verge / Alex Cranz / Mar 6

“New users are seeing ads for stuff like Horizon Worlds, which, again, is such a mess even the people who make it don’t want to play it.” —

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