Meta ‘ruined’ the term metaverse, but now it’s evolving: Yuga Labs CEO
While Meta’s Horizon Worlds is suffering from a low user base, metaverse platforms have focused on building, says Yuga Labs CEO Daniel Alegre.
Big Tech player Meta gave the metaverse a bad name when it pushed its janky vision to the masses. Luckily, open online virtual worlds have continued to evolve, says Yuga Labs CEO Daniel Alegre.
Speaking to Cointelegraph at Token 2049 in Singapore, Alegre said the problem with the metaverse is that Meta “ruined the term because it said: ‘This is something brand new’” — despite other metaverse platforms already existing.
“I was at Activision Blizzard, we had World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft is a metaverse, Fortnite is a metaverse — so the metaverse is evolving, I think, in very, very positive ways.”
Alegre said the low userbase is a core issue of Meta’s Horizon Worlds — but it’s otherwise only useful “if there was a reason to be there.”
“[Users] go in and say ‘Hey, Mark, so cool to see you...