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This is so close to validating my expectations that I'm almost skeptical of its veracity. I'm a regular Quest player, but I couldn't tell you how to launch Horizons if you held a gun to my head.

The leaders of corporate initiatives like this often tell themselves that they are building an ecosystem. They also seem convinced that an ecosystem will manifest from a highly curated, centrally developed silo that they have total control over. I guess it sort of worked for Facebook back in the day, but they were surfing on a lot of good will when it happened (and look at it now).

Things that are much closer to a metaverse than Horizons will ever be:

- Minecraft (Bedrock)

- VRChat

- Any popular multiplayer game that includes a free level editor

- The open web

[SLHamlet]

Definitely agree about VRChat (and Minecraft to a lesser extent)!